Caphit question

[Echolalia 2,961]

I was looking over my potential dream cap at home and ran into a question that I was hoping someone who is more knowledgeable of the subject could help me out on:

Some of the players we have signed who currently play in GR have contracts for a number of years beyond this one (Abdelkader is signed through next year, Helm is signed through next year, etc). If these guys come up to play with us for a full 82 games next year as Red Wings and not call-ups, do we take the average cap of their entire contract's salary off the team's cap, or just what they earn next year?

Ex:

Helm's current contract is .663M for 07/08, .630M for 08/09, .500M for 09/10. If he made the team next year and played the entire season, would his cap hit for next year be (.663+.630+.500)/3=.597M, or would it be .500M, as that's the only year he played full time as a Wing? Or would we have to take the average of the caphits against the Wings per year that he was called up as (.238M for 08/09 +.500M for 09/10+ whatever his cap hit was last year)/3 years = total caphit for 09/10

Any help would be much appreciated, and sorry if I worded this confusingly.

Edited February 16, 2009 by Echolalia

[toby91_ca 620]

Pretty sure it would be the average of the 3 years in your example. Shouldn't make a difference whether they played in the AHL in prior years or not, the cap hit should always be the average yearly salary of your contract.

Edit: if you are worrying about the small details of these types of contracts, you are probably putting yourself too close to the cap anyway (i.e. no wiggle room for injuries, etc.). Also, presumably you are trying to figure something out for 2009, which we do not know what the cap will be.

Edited February 16, 2009 by toby91_ca

[egroen 384]

Yup - it's still the average cap hit.

[Echolalia 2,961]

Edit: if you are worrying about the small details of these types of contracts, you are probably putting yourself too close to the cap anyway (i.e. no wiggle room for injuries, etc.). Also, presumably you are trying to figure something out for 2009, which we do not know what the cap will be.

Well I actually haven't really come up with anything, rather I noticed we had a couple GR salaries in the system and was curious as to how it actually worked.