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Originally Posted by Fire
The escalator doesn't really increase the the size of the overall pie, it just fakes it and I don't agree the top guys suffer more than the bottom guys. They both lose the same percentage. If anything it's the guys at the bottom that are worse off because they can least afford to lose money to escrow.
I'm not surprised they decided to go with only a 2.5% escalator instead of 5% because the escalator really punishes the guys that already have contracts. I bet if Crosby knew he would be killed by escrow so much he wouldn't have signed a 12 year deal when he did. Or he would have asked for more money at the time.
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Somewhat true, it does fake it, but you know that and I know that but by all indications it doesnt appear that the Players or PA know that.
Again, its largely a shadow game, a higher cap means more money for the players! Except not really.