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Originally Posted by saillias
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.
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I dunno.
I think if guys like Kopitar really want raises similar to Toews and Kane, they will get them. Someone will pay.
The players really have the hammer in between lockouts.