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(04-12-2023, 12:41 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Not to further derail this thread (as if that needed any of my help..), but maybe you could help answer a question that I have.  When a contract is said to have 'void years' included, so that the team can spread the cap hit over time.  Does that mean that those 'extra' years can indeed be voided, the player moves on, yet the team still has to deal with cap hit from the original contract? 

Take when they signed Reiff. He signed a 1 yr- 7.5m deal, with a 5.5m signing bonus and a void year. That allowed them to split the signing bonus over 2 years instead of 1, and reduce his cap hit to 4.75m instead of 7.5. Then they had a cap hit of 2.75 the next year even though he wasn't on the team.

Or say they wanted to reduce Boyd's 10.3m cap number this year. They could add 2 void years, converting say 6m of his 8.45m base salary to a signing bonus. That would reduce his cap hit 5.85m this year, but would still have cap hits of 2m in '24 and '25 even though his contract expires after this season.