Ryan Nugent-Hopkins #93, Edmonton Oilers (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
Earlier this week the Edmonton Oilers announced they had re-signed the Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. The deal is for $41 million over 8 seasons. Thanks to Pierre Lebrun’s Twitter account, we could see the breakdown as follows:
21-22: $5M salary
22-23: $5.25M salary
23-24: $6.25M salary
24-25: $6.25M salary
25-26: $4M salary plus $2M sb
26-27: $2.25M salary plus $2.5M sb
27-28: $2.5M salary plus $1.25M sb
28-29: $3.75M salary
This is a quintessential Ken Holland contract.