Five years, $17.5 million.
Let’s just get this part out of the way right off the bat. That’s the contract extension that Islanders GM Garth Snow offered Cal Clutterbuck last December. And that’s the contract extension onto which Clutterbuck signed his name. It kicks in this upcoming season and carries an average annual value of $3.5 million. There’s a very good chance his annual salary exceeds yours. And that’s because you’re a loser.
It’s a bad contract. The term, the value, it’s all bad. I’m not going to make some desperate attempt to justify it.