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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
And I highlighted in red for you the ones that are second contracts.
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Actually you missed Ovechkin.
And when he signed his contract, the cap was 50.3M. His 9.5M cap hit was 19% of the ceiling. At today's cap, a 19% cap hit would be over 14M. Eichel's is modest in comparison.
Eichel's 10M, or 13% of the current cap is closer to Dustin Penner's offersheet contract (9% of the cap) than it is to Ovechkin's. When Iginla signed his first contract after the cap, he had an 18% hit.
It's a weird phenomenon when the inflation of the real-world dollars hasn't matched at all near the inflation of the cap, so I can understand the thought process, but it's just misguided. I can especially understand the confusion because of all the masked "10M contracts" that were lowered due to salary cap circumvention by attaching retirement years. But anyone who didn't think that Eichel wasn't going to get 10M or more if he signed for the full 8 years wasn't paying attention - either to Eichel himself or the salary cap.