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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
This isn't about Glencross. The market for UFAs is weakening as teams have to devote more cap-space to young RFAs.
NHL free agents becoming desperate as money dries up in a buyers’ market
"Many teams still need to sign their key restricted free agents, and with young players getting paid like never before, GMs have been forced to allocate more dollars and term for those contracts." |
This is the 2nd article I've seen now that has suggested we're seeing young players being paid more than ever before. I don't get it. Young players today aren't even getting paid as much as they were circa 2010... and the cap was around 58 million back then, so the percentage of cap space devoted to those young players was much higher.
We just signed 22yo franchise Dman, Dougie Hamilton, to a 6yr deal worth 5.75M per year (
8% of today's cap).
In the summer of 2008, we signed 23yo "franchise Dman", Dion Phaneuf, to a 6yr deal worth 6.5M per year (
11.5% of the 2008/09 cap).
The examples extend to other teams and players as well. These articles suggesting the early 20s players are being paid more than ever are just flat-out wrong.