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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
It's fair to a point, though. An internal cap based on your best players can - at least for as long as you can stretch it out - reasonably maintain salaries at below market value on the view that if Superstar is taking less, you can too. I don't really fault players for balking at that but I don't fault management for trying it, either. There's definitely some brand equity in it for the player.
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Gio may not have actually taken less money at that time, when the cap was quite a bit smaller and his age for that contract was reasonably high.
Calgary really hasn't had anyone who could reasonable test that internal cap, since they haven't had a really good player who was going into his UFA years.
If either Johnny or Monny had been UFA's instead of RFA's, they would have blown through that internal cap.
And I agree, I certainly don't fault management in trying anything to keep the cap numbers down.