Curious Hair wrote:
He's at 391 career NHL games. I guess 400 qualifies you for a higher pension tranche, so I hope he gets exactly that many between Carolina and idk Las Vegas and then retires. Big part of a championship team, even though things got ugly at the end of his time here, which turned out to be through no fault of his own.
EDIT: duh, the Coyotes can always use dead cap space too
The 400 game rule is 400 games on the roster, not 400 games played. Any game he was a healthy scratch for counts for purposes of the pension. I learned this as John Scott talked about it during a somewhat recent interview and said he qualifies because of it.
Edit: here it is... We can safely say that Bickell already has qualified for a full pension
https://theathletic.com/46895/2017/03/2 ... -sausages/