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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Ignoring how blatantly this illustrates your motivations, let's just deal with the issue you attempted to imply:
The salary of an individual player has absolutely no bearing on the team's profitability at all, assuming the team spends to the cap regardless (which the Flames do).
The pool of money available to players and shared by players is equal to 50% of HRR REGARDLESS of what Gaudreau (or any other individual) gets paid. Him getting more just means there is less for others.
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So you would accept 10-20% less salary if it meant your company could pay your coworkers more?
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The only impact Gaudreau's salary has on the Flames is with respect to how much cap space it leaves for other players. So the more he gets paid, the less competitive the team can afford to be. I would assume that, as a Flames fan, this would concern you. But clearly you are only concerned with how much he gets paid.
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The large pay day coming to Johnny does concern me. But not because he is putting the flames in a bad cap position, but because the Flames put themselves in a bad cap situation.
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You seem to be of the opinion that you are defending his honour and the rest of us don't appreciate his value. Nothing could be further from the truth. Pretty much all Flames fans love Gaudreau, and no one wants to see him underpaid. However, holding out for an extra million, when he's already going to get paid far more than most players, is simply greed that a) hurts the team competitively, and b) takes money away from other players.
Where is your indignation about that?
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I'm curious, why is Gaudreau the greedy one when he wants to get paid what he's worth, but it's ok for Monahan to make more than all his other comps? Surely Monahan should have just taken 5.4M instead of 6.4M, which was certainly on the high end of expectations. And it's ok for Giordano to sign a deal that will in all likelihood be a huge liability in the last few years? Seems odd that Johnny should have to pay for the fact that the his fellow teammates were 'greedy' and the Flames didn't use discretion when doling out these huge contracts.