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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Or is the truck reserved for a superstar like Kane or Datsyuk?
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What is "the truck"? Kane makes 10.5M. Datsyuk was making 7.5M. That's quite a difference.
And just a reminder, but Kane's career year before signing his contract was 88 points nearly 5 years earlier. The three years preceding him signing his contract, he put up 190 points in 198 games. He signed his contract extension after coming off a 69 points in 69 games season.
I mean it's easy to get in the mindset that 10.5M for Kane was 10.5M for the Art Ross winning Kane we had this season, but really breaking out 2 years after he signed his contract, at 27, is not quite the norm. I'm sure that the Hawks were 'expecting' Kane to be the perennial point-per-game player he was, and were still happy to offer him that 10.5M. 106 points and an Art Ross is a bonus.