David Clarkson has 3 more years of his contact left, each with a cap hit $5.25 million. David Clarkson was on long term injured reserve (LTIR for the rest of the article) last season, removing his dollars from the cap calculations against the Blue Jackets and allowing them to end the season under the cap figure of $73 million. David Clarkson, as reported by the Columbus Dispatch, has taken a job at Upper Arlington High School as the varsity hockey head coach and will likely never play again.
All of this information is unquestionably true.