{"id":591130,"date":"2026-04-18T05:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591130\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:18:11","slug":"new-york-islanders-lead-nhl-in-salary-cap-overages-heading-into-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591130\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Islanders Lead NHL in Salary Cap Overages Heading Into Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The New York Islanders super rookie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/player\/matthew-schaefer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Schaefer<\/a>\u00a0earned the maximum bonuses possible for an Entry Level player &#8211; $3,500,000.\u00a0 He hit 4 \u201cA\u201d bonuses for Goals, Assists, Points per game, and Time on Ice, earning $1 million, and by finishing in the top 10 among NHL Defensemen in goals, he earned his $2.5 million \u201cB\u201d bonus.\u00a0 Since the Islanders used LTIR and finished over the cap, this entire $3.5 million bonus is an overage.\u00a0 This large overage isn\u2019t quite as high as the overages incurred by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/team\/boston-bruins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston<\/a>\u00a0($4.5 million in 23-24) and Edmonton ($3.55 million in 24-25) in recent years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The New York Islanders super rookie\u00a0Matthew Schaefer\u00a0earned the maximum bonuses possible for an Entry Level player &#8211; $3,500,000.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-591130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}