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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Salary does matter. It can make a player impossible to trade, buy-out, sent down, scratch, or otherwise manage. Moreover, it effects future negotiations with other players. It's hard to ask Kylington, for example, to take less than 5.25 million if he's playing way better than Wideman, who's making way more money and performing far worse.
It also effects a teams ability to fill holes via trades or free agency or even sign players. For example, Treliving wanted to negotiate with Russell during the regular season but traded him because there was only so much dollars they can have on the blue-line. Also, if you can't part with bloated contracts, that might impede your ability to develop players. Would I prefer giving Culkin, Kulak, or Wotherspoon some regular NHL time over Wideman, Engelland and Smid?
This is why good managers manage the cap, as well as the on-ice product.
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Of course salary matters.
But there are two separate things here:
1)
building a team - where salary matters a TON.
2) actual play
on the ice. Once they are on the ice, their salary is irrelevant. It just comes down to winning.
Bonino played great in the playoffs. Whether he was making $1M or $5M doesn't change how he played.
This conversation has been about the
on ice factor.