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From the CCHL Bonus Boy, Matt Young...

With the conclusion of the season and the playoffs nearing completion, the league office has begun to determine the bonus dollars each team is eligible for as a result of the 2016-17 season. 

While this article will not run over each financial bonus dollar, it will highlight a few of the more interesting items.

No fewer than five teams will receive the full 4.75 million dollar bonus for having perfect lineups this season; thus no lineups with a player that is ineligible to play in their lines.  Three more teams would only have one set of lines that were invalid, making it 36% of the league where only three errors in lineups took place. 

Also interesting to note that the Fort Erie rebuild yielded some nice results in terms of bonus payouts for top five rookie scoring as both Marner and Werenski placed in the top five.  Auston Matthew, Matthew Tkachuk, and Patrik Laine round out the top-five freshmen scorers this CCHL season. 

Matthews and Laine also placed within the top 40 scorers in the league, earning their teams' further cash in that category, doubling down for their teams' financial success. 

The Dayton Musicmen may have sung the blues on a lot of nights this season but it wasn't from a lack of desire.  Two Musicmen, Matt Irwin and Dan Girardi, placed in the top five for blocking shots this year which netted the Musicmen a solid 1.5 million dollars in bonus money. 

Also straight out of the not-surprising files was that the Calgary Chinook took home bonus money for finishing in the top three in both special teams categories and also earned another 3.75 million dollars for having five players in the CCHL's top 40 scorers this season. 

Look for the full results of the CCHL bonus program payouts to be released at the conclusion of the CCHL Kehler Cup final.  Remember, you have until then to get more blogs submitted as we turn the page on the season blog bonus totals at the end of the playoffs and anything written after that point is counted towards next year's total.