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Originally Posted by JerryUnderscore
I suppose the thing to do would be to look up ice time stats from last year for each team and take the two wingers with the third and fourth highest average ice time (or, since people aren't always playing positionally, it might be better to simply take the three forwards with the fourth, fifth and sixth highest ice time averages).
You would then need to filter out any players on ELC's. The remaining group is your "second line winger" group.
From there you could take a look at each players AAV and what percent of the cap that was the year they signed it. This would give us the average percentage value of second line winger's AAV.
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That's pretty good criteria.
If I were to make one supplemental suggestion it'd be that you also want to look at the ice-time based on the prior year they signed. If they were signed on the premise that they were a "1st line player" and given salary consummate to that designation but later skill diminishment led to a drop in ice-time then they weren't given "2nd line money" they were given 1st line money that they just later failed to live up to.