jeremy_cheung14 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 can someone plz tell me the different between salary and cap hit thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Salary = How much a player makes Cap hit = The amount of the players salary that counts towards a teams salary cap I think I got it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyfan90 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 salary is what the player is making in one season and cap hit is the amount that goes towards the cap of the team. Example Luongo's salary last year was 10 million so he made that amount that year but his cap hit is 5.3 million towards his 12 year contract and that's the amount that goes towards the team cap hit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlas=d Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 cap hit is the average a player gets paid through his contract. that's why the NHL doesn't want 15+ year contracts because GM's will sign players to contracts that pay 100mil and have it all front loaded so if the player chooses to retire he already made his dough. and the cap hit is super low because the final years pay hardly anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Salary is the actual take home of the player each individual year of the contract where cap hit is an annual average salary across the whole contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzam Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 IE. year 1 - 1mill salary year 2 - 2mill salary year 3 - 3 mill salary cap hit 1+2+3=6mill / 3 years = 2 mill cap hit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Doughty Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Salary= What Owner's Care About Cap Hit= What Fans care about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dura_mater Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 All of these are good examples but they don't really spell it out (they assume you still know a few things). If a player makes 50 million over 7 years but they pay him: Year 1: 10 mil Year 2: 10 mil Year 3: 6 mil Year 4: 6 mil Year 5: 6 mil Year 6: 6 mil Year 7: 6 mil Then his Salary is still $50million, however, to get his cap hit, take the average. $50/7 = $7.14mil Cap Hit (less than the $10mil he's paid his first 2 years). It's this number that counts towards the teams Cap each year, not his total salary. Hopefully that's clearer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck2379 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Thank you, thank you, thank you...the whole cap hit vs salary thing has been confusing me for months! Now I understand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PUNJABI CANUCK Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Salary= What Owner's Care About Cap Hit= What Fans care about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuzzIer Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Thank you, thank you, thank you...the whole cap hit vs salary thing has been confusing me for months! Now I understand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Salary= What Owner's Care About Cap Hit= What Fans care about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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