When free agency opened on October 9, the Ducks were looking for a change on the blue line and they found it in Kevin Shattenkirk. The 31-year-old defender signed a three-year contract worth $11.7 million that includes a modified no-trade clause.
We’ll first dive into the contract and then take a look at the player earning it and how he’ll fit into Anaheim.
The Contract
With no signing bonuses, Shattenkirk’s contract is interestingly backloaded in real dollars and carries a cap hit of $3.9 million that accounts for 4.79 percent of the team’s cap space.