Once the shock of the Bo Horvat acquisition subsided, the next natural question for most New York Islanders fans became, “If they can sign him...well, how do they sign him?”
As in: what will he command, and how will they find the cap room?
We can only go by rumblings and speculation on what the pending UFA was seeking in his summer negotiations with Vancouver, but given those and his career year, it’s reasonably safe middle ground to start with 8x8 or higher for this exercise. (That’s 8 years, $8 million per, for those new to salary cap rosterbation.