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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I hear you and that certainly makes sense. Bigger picture though, I believe a player's salary is more determined by the broader market than comparisons within the team.
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To a degree - for example, Auston Matthews is getting $12M. After the McDavid deal, that became assured.
Conversely, the McDavid deal is the reason Draisaitl gets a contract that starts with an 8. If they'd done Leon first, he would've come in around $7-7.5M - Tarasenko numbers.
Instead, you have a guy on the same team going 'well I may not be Connor, but I'm not $5M worse than Connor either. So pay me my money'.
Sam and Matthew will get theirs - I simply think the contract situations of the other star players on the roster play a role. Last year, we were told over and over that there was no Gio cap. Well, there's a Gio cap. And for players in their early 20s, I'm fine with that.