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Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands
How much income have the players actually lost due to the corrections made by escrow?
I was of the understanding that once final revenue numbers were determined, the players could receive a payment from escrow.
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I would guess they lost some as they used their escalator clause to raise the cap as revenue did not support it. I also guess it was a bigger issue as the scaled back the revenue split
I think at this point the players are finally seeing good inflation in salaries over the last 2 to 3 years
By my count I have potential of 42 players signing for 6 mil or more next summer. Of those 42 I have 9 that already had a cap hit of 6
The league has 23 current deals at 8 or more cap hit. I see 14 more this summer. Marner, Matthews, bobrovsky, rantanen, panarin, e karlsson, Stone, Wheeler, seguin, doughty, kucherov, laine, ekman-Larson, couture. 0 of the 23 expire this summer so 38 at 8 or more. Some of these guys could be getting 11 plus. Starting to make toews Kane and kopitar contracts look good and definitely making mackinnon barkov monahan scheifle tarasenko look like huge steals
Imo some of the issues players may have had a couple years ago may not be as big a deal now that they are seeing contracts increase each summer