Tom Panaccio of CSNPhilly: The Philadelphia Flyers and Jeff Carter agreed today on an 11 year contract worth $58 million. That is an average salary cap hit of $5.2727 million.
A press conference is scheduled for 6 pm.
The Flyers now have $1.73 million in projected cap space, and they still hope to Ville Leino re-signed. They will still need to trade away some salary by the start of next season.
Salary breakdown from CapGeek:
2011-12 – $6,000,000
2012-13 – $6,250,000
2013-14 – $6,500,000
2014-15 – $6,750,000
2015-16 – $7,000,000
2016-17 – $7,000,000
2017-18 – $6,500,000
2018-19 – $5,000,000
2019-20 – $3,000,000
2020-21 – $2,000,000
2021-22 – $2,000,000
