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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Anyone think he spends a lot of time these days regretting that? We will never know the details but either his agent did a terrible job at negotiating or McDavid got caught up in the Kool-Aid or winning a playoff round after a decade of being no good. It's one thing to waste the prime years of your career in that mess but doing at a discount is pretty dumb.
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McDavid would not have thought of it that way.... he would have thought that by him being on the team, that things would be much improved, it was going to be a really good team. That's not a knock on him - it's just human nature.
Now... a good GM would have signed McDavid for just over the maximum of all other contracts - that's what McDavid wanted - to be the highest paid. I have no doubt that BT would have signed McDavid for somewhere around 11 million per. You sell it to McDavid as having room to sign great players around him... so he can break records - that's the stuff that McDavid wants - and championships. Why do you think Sidney gets 8.7 million per - same reason. Do you really think that Sidney just gets 8.7? (talking about sponsorships, etc.) McDavid is getting more then 12.5 as well.... and if the Oilers' were winning - it just means more - that 1.5 million dollar shortfall would become a windfall - but with the Oilers losing, it just won't grow as quick and as fast - that 1.5 million will cost McDavid more money, more records, and more championship (potentially) - so greed is keeping him and the Oilers trapped in cap hell.