Wolves locking in future core pieces

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A few hours after the article about the article about Wann Kerr's possible upcoming extension with the Wolves was released, Bob Knob (a reputable Wolves insider) tweeted:

 

"Kerr extension almost signed. I'm hearing it's a max term deal. Lekman extendion probably coming soon after"

 

There's always fire to the smoke with Knob's tweets. Sure enough, later yesterday, Kerr's extension was officially reported as 5×1.5M, effective from S89 to S93, with full NTC throughout the whole term.

 

Lekman's extensios was reported 8 hours after Kerr's, it's 4×1.5 with NTC zhrough the first two seasons, effective from S89 to S92.

 

Both contracts are great cap management work done by Frank, signing both players for league minimum. Which is of course not allowed by the VHL CBA, but it ensures both players will be paid minimum per salary cap bracket, giving Frank as much wiggle room under the cap as possible and making it hard to imagine these contracts aging badly.

 

Realistically, Kerr will probably be paid 3.5M when the contract kicks in and 6M in its last year, and Lekman probably 2.5M or 3M in the first year and around 5M in its last year. Those are still very team friendly deals.