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Lucic Contract Has Lockout Protection
by Paul on 10/07/09 at 02:39 PM ET
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from Ken Campbell of The Hockey News,
More people probably raised eyebrows at the fact that a player who scores, on average, one goal every four-plus games somehow merited an almost 500 percent raise. (Sure the guy brings intangibles, but geez, $4 million worth of intangibles?)
It’s amazing this contract passed the desk of notorious skin-flint and ownership hawk Jeremy Jacobs. Because, what the Bruins did, in effect, was help Lucic have a little more resolve if there is another lockout.
That’s because the $1 million bonus is due to be paid July 1, 2012. For those of you not keeping score, that could very well be a couple of months before another labor disruption. The current collective bargaining agreement expires after the 2011-12 season, but the players have the option of extending it for another year, which means it could very well come to an end after that season.
So if the owners lock the players out the way they did in 2004, Lucic will at least have $1 million in his pocket to get him through the lean times. You have to think the NHL isn’t crazy about teams giving their players lockout protection.
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Sure the guy brings intangibles, but geez, $4 million worth of intangibles?
He’s a big doofus who hits and punches things—to Boston fans those are intangibles that are priceless.
Posted by Primis on 10/07/09 at 04:19 PM ET
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Um… he’ll also have the $8 million he’s earning in the two season before that. How is a $1 mil bonus going to be so important?
Non-issue.
Posted by false_cause from DC on 10/07/09 at 03:18 PM ET