With the young players with RFA status starting to command more money, the salary paradigm has to shift because there isn't more money in the system. If the young star player is going to get more money, it's going to come from someone. So with that shift currently in place, a Contract like this is going to become a serious problem.
Guys like Hayes will need to go from being 6 million dollar guys to 4 million dollar guys in order for the Aho, Tkachuck, Marners to go from being 7 million dollar guys to 9 million dollar types.
Unless it's a top end player, going to be hard to carry a player over 30 with a salary North of 4 million.
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