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Originally Posted by handgroen
judging from conroy's recent comments and from the comments of rich winter gio's agent,
kane is overpaid and if he were to renegotiate his contract today, it would come in at a lower value. might take a few years before this contract makes sense to trade for.
also crap thread BTW
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This. What Ritch Winter said was important. He talked about us how Stan Bowman gets questioned about those 10.5 mil/year contracts for Toews and Kane. Bowman would say, well at the time the economics of the NHL were projecting differently. It was looking like the cap was going to keep increasing exponentially. They were looking 4-5 years down the road at a much much higher cap. Now things have changed with the CDN$ and those deals don't look as good. And guys of that caliber (see: Kopitar) up for a raise are going to be disappointed.
Anyway, those contracts were almost like a "thank you" payout to Kane and Toews for the 2 cups (and 3rd they won with the extension already incoming) so a completely different org has much less incentive to pay those guys that money.