Anyone interested in buying low on a slightly used Kaspari kapanen still with elite horsepower?

No one?

Well I guess now we’re just going to watch him turn up inside the blue line for 2 more years…

My man, he’s had two years already to turn it up, he’s 26, and y’all are bringing back the exact same team from the last two years.

Turn up (meaning put on the brakes and not go to the front of the net) is different than turn it up lol
Kapanen has never been able to turn it up that’s the problem

Yeah unless we get some major changes we’re another first round exit prob

Ohhhhhh got it. My bad. Misread the post.

Did you not check to see when Kapanen's expiring contract was signed? It was before July 2020. So yes, his qualifying offer was based on the final year's base salary, not the AAV, which only applies to newer contracts (signed after July 10, 2020).

So CapFriendly were wrong on Kapanen QO ?

just want you to know it's very annoying when you quote reply everyone whose already posted in the thread. you're not that important, stop doing it please.

So do we know what the QO is yet or no?

Kapanen's contract was signed in 2019, so as usual draft_em_sign_em_trade_em doesn't know what he's talking about.

It would've been 800,000 * 105%. Find it very funny that the Penguins got him to agree to that.

800K * 105% like mentioned above

Ok. I saw in here that there was a debate.

2 years to prove that he's not a bust. I hope Kapanen bounces back from last season and make this contract a steal for us.

We did upgrade our defence at least. Thats really the only change. Hoping we bring Rodriguez back. We also could see a big impact from rookies this season like Big Z, O'Connor, POJ, and the newly acquired Poehling.

He’s a good player but the $3,200,000? That’s a bit much.

The key phrase there is "limited to". That's the maximum it can be, not the minimum. This was to end the practice of young players asking for heavily back-end loaded bridge contracts with a ridiculously high salary in the last year to try to become a UFA before they had the years in to qualify.

For example, Alex Debrincat's AAV is $6.4M AAV but his salary is $9M in the last year, so the team has to offer $9M (assuming they don't extend him first) to hang onto his RFA rights. If DeBrincat had signed that same contract a year later, his qualifying offer would be a more reasonable $7.68M even with the $9M salary in the last year. For some reason Kapanen did the opposite and went for a low salary in the last year. Maybe he was more worried about getting bought out than becoming a UFA.