It’s the Senators season preview event today, where they’re showing off the new food options, theme nights, and oh yeah, signing (literally) an 8 year, $66.8m extension for Tim Stützle.
That’s one way to generate some buzz for the season.
The $8.35m cap hit also makes Stützle the highest paid player on the team. The contract starts at $5m in year one, then $6.5m in year two, $9m in three and four, $10m in five and six, $9.9m in year seven, and finally dropping dropping to $7.4m in the final year. The official release does not mention any no move/no trade clauses for the UFA years, though CapFriendly is reporting a 10-team no-trade list that kicks in for year five.