Since sharing some of my thoughts on the amount of cap room I believe the Tampa Bay Lightning have to work with for 2017-18, I have had a lot of discussions with people about the Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat contracts. In most of my doodles with the salary cap, I’ve penciled them in for either $5.5 million per season or $6 million per season. A lot of responses I’ve gotten have been “No way they get that.”
I respectfully disagree.
Instead of being forced to answer those responses multiple times in a series of 140 character tweets, I figured it was best for me to write it out in an article.