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Originally Posted by New Era
When a player like Antze Kopitar is getting $10M a season in a year when the cap is more than certain to drop, there is no hope for the system to rebalance itself.
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This has been stated many times before, but clearly needs to be repeated...
Individual contracts are irrelevant with respect to having an effect on the salary cap. The cap is defined by revenues, and is an aggregate for all players.
If the total of all player contracts exceeds the cap limit, then
all contracts are reduced, pro rata, back down to the cap (this is the purpose of the escrow).
When a player signs a huge contract, that has no bearing on the cap or on total salary inflation. It does do two things however:
1) it takes money away from other players
2) it causes inflation for top players, which simply means even less money for other players