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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
His last one was 4y/10.2mil. That contract started in 2011. So his numbers the year before (his contract year 2010-2011) was 24g-19a-43pts. Other wingers within range that year include:
Penner
D. Jones
E. Kane
Bertuzzi
Neal
Too lazy to look up what their pay was that season but I'm sure some players were over, some were under. I just remember the universal consensus at the time was that it was a steal of a contract. One of the best in the league for a guy who could potentially score 30g, yet was often injured.
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It's not like he couldn't have gone elsewhere to get big money, but he didn't want to go elsewhere, he wanted to stay in Calgary. That and the no trade clause he received, which was valuable to him right up to the end, was why he 'took a discount'.
It's absurd to think because The Rangers would pay you 5 million that you deserve 5 million from the Flames.
If I work in Oil and Gas logistics, that doesn't mean I should get oil and gas wages if I switch to Fruit and Vegetable logistics. The world doesn't work that way.
If I'm a teacher in New Brunswick and I want to make Alberta teacher wages, well, guess where I have to move to?