How to Trade a Player After July 1st

Matthews has a $7 million signing bonus, or sorry, $7.2, and Neelander has a 3.5. Is there any appetite in giving that unbelievable sum of money and then trading a player because there's added value there? Well, that's always been the secondary part of putting those signing bonuses in the contract. But even with Marner, as you point out here, a lot of the money has been paid up front in his contract. So even though he carries that pretty high cap hit a little south of 11 million, the actual dollars owed are way less.

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