What We Learned: Deferred salary could change the NHL's cap situation

The NHL may soon enter a brave new world of player compensation.

Over the weekend, Seth Jarvis agreed to his long-awaited extension with the Carolina Hurricanes: eight years and $63.2 million. Normally, that would result in a cap hit of $7.9 million, which in itself would be a bit of a steal in the same vein as the Sebastian Aho contract.

But because of what people seemingly thought was a never-used CBA loophole, Jarvis's cap hit will instead be $7.42 million, thanks to Jarvis agreeing to receive millions of dollars as a "deferred payment" at the expiration of the eight-year deal, possibly over multiple years.

It turns out, though, that someone did use this deferred payment loophole before: The Arizona Coyotes did it with Shane Doan on a one-year deal in 2016-17 (easily forgotten and dismisse