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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Yashin was on the books for 8 years @ 2.2 M. And that seemed like a crazy long time.
Also worth noting the salary cap was in the 50-60M range for most of that period, so he accounted for ~4% of the teams cap.
2010 cap was 59.4, compared to 73M in 2015 (a little over 4% average annual increase). Assuming a 4% increase:
2020 cap = 87.6; Richards = 0.8% of cap
2025 cap = 102.2; Richards = 0.6% of cap
2030 cap = 116.8; Richards = 0.4% of cap
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The cap is never going that high unless:
1) A new mega TV deal is signed
2) The US and Canada experience levels of inflation that haven't been seen in decades
JMO obviously but this is a gate driven league and i can't see revenue going up to the point where the cap is $116m, or even close. Maybe if every team had the revenues of the Canadian teams, but there are far too many dud teams out there dragging the overall HRR down.
Also, I'd wager that MSL is going to take a huge chunk out of the NHL over the next few decades as well.