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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
Well, Giordano will win a Norris as well....The idea is to win a cup, not individual awards. Further to that if you look at the Blues, big and fast defensman are more the ideal mold. He has been involved in two playoff runs and was injured both times. I’d rather have Parayko.
This is Connor McDavid money, is he worth that much? Certainly better then the Skinner contract, but that does not say much.
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This isn't Connor McDavid money, especially not when you factor in the RFA status of McDavid.
What this is is the going price for top-tier players. It's been this ways for a decade+, there's a little bit of inflation, but a player like Weber started making 10M+ a year in 2012. Sure, they added on a bunch of retirement years where he'll develop a rash but in terms of actual cold hard cash he's making over 100M in his first 10 years of that contract.
For better or worse, we're at the stage where top tier players make 11M+ during their prime UFA years. Most contracts don't go through a player all in his UFA prime years (some either when they are 35+ or still under RFA) but when they do, they get paid a #### ton and everyone says they are overpaid. Not every top tier player can be overpaid.
Also Iginla made 14% of the cap when he first signed as a UFA with his 7M salary. So Karlsson's 14.5% of the cap isn't that far off - although Karlsson's contract does bring him past his prime years.