Erat's contract rejected ny NHL

Anyone know what the problem was?

Martin Erat's new seven-year, $31.5 contract with the Nashville Predators has been rejected by the NHL.

Erat's contract was rejected because it did not conform to the Collective Barganing Agreement.

Erat, 26, scored a career high 26 goals this past season and tied a personal best with 57 points. The Predators selected Erat
with the 191st overall pick in the 1999 Entry Draft.

The 6-foot-0, 195-pound left winger is currently representing the Czech Republic at the IIHF World Championships in Halifax and Quebec City.

 

violates a clause in the collective bargaining agreement that regulates year-to-year fluctuations in salary."

 

Looks like it's fixed.

The league rejected it because it didn't conform to what is commonly called "the 100 percent rule." Deutsch explained it like this: When the lower sum of the player's first two contract years is divided by two, the resulting total (in Erat's case it was $1.75 million) cannot be less than the difference in any two years in the contract.
The difference between years 5 and 6 of Erat's contract had been $2 million. To fix the problem, the two sides took $250,000 out of Erat's year 7 salary and moved it to year 6.