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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Why are teams in such a hurry to sign all their young players to these massive deals? You can just see the Leafs heading down the same road as the Oilers where they will have 35% of their salary cap tied up in Matthews, Marner, and Nylander. I'm not sure if having such a large portion of salary cap tied up into a few players is the way to build a perennial cup contender. Seems like it's going to yield a year to year thing where if these teams have ELC's overachieve and strike gold on cheap UFA's they can be a really good team and if all of those things don't happen then result in a mediocre top heavy team.
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It does seem to be the approach for a few teams. Hope that your elite players dominate and then the other guys just need to plug up the ice and play close to even.