Detroit Lions NFL Floral Unisex Full Print Hawaiian Shirt

July 31, 2023

When Sergei Fedorov couldn’t agree to terms with Detroit, he just sort of Detroit Lions NFL Floral Unisex Full Print Hawaiian Shirt there because no one could possibly sign him – no one would be willing to pay the massive salary to entice him, let alone all the draft picks as compensation. Unless there was an owner who had a long-running feud with Detroit owner Mike Ilitch…which Carolina owner Peter Karmanos just happened to. So Fedorov signed a huge offer sheet with Carolina, with a conditional $12 million bonus: it would be spaced out over the six years of the contract, unless the team happened to reach the conference finals – in which case, all remaining bonus money would be due immediately. Carolina was plodding along as a non-contender at this point, but Detroit figured to make another deep playoff run… The NHL voided the offer sheet, claiming that it was a poison pill and thus not allowed. Carolina asked an arbitrator to intervene, and the one who did agreed that it was not a poison pill and was allowable. Either way, Detroit matched, and when they made it to the conference finals that year, it meant that Fedorov collected $16 million in salary plus the $12 million bonus for about three months of work. The key part was that by doing this, Carolina effectively neutered the entire RFA market for the next eight years. The big-market teams figured to be making runs at the small-market RFAs with impunity, and what Carolina did just completely wiped that out by restoring some type of equilibrium.

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