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Originally Posted by Mister Yamoto
Well I called it the day the lockout ended and I'll say it again. TOP Players win. Again. Nice work Bettman. I see a 55 million dollar cap floor next season.
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FYP.
The top 2 tiers of players are the ones reaping the benefits from this. The big name guys are getting huge, unsustainable deals and guys like Hudler getting 4-6 million, but the guys at the lower end (the ones who this money should actually be allocated to since they are the ones making the least while staying in the league for the least amount of time) are seeing their value decrease. When teams spend 1/4 of their salary cap on 2-3 players, how can they afford to pay their bottom guys (who are just as important to team success) what they're worth?
It's bad asset management to give these big deals IMO. You may think you're holding onto a star player, but does anyone really expect Parise or Suter to play like 7+ mil players for over a decade? Especially when their already halways through their prime? It makes no sense. And if guys like Suter can't hold that up, does anyone really expect Phaneuf to play at that level for the next 7 years? Does anyone think he's actually worth that TODAY, much less 7 years from now?
Guys like Widemen and Giordano (amongst a plethora of good but "no name" defensemen across the league) bring exactly what Phaneuf can bring and more for less dough.