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Originally Posted by getbak
Not that I'm aware of. I'd be interested in seeing/hearing a quote of Treliving saying such a thing.
He may have vaguely made reference to it when Gaudreau was signed. No one who has signed since then has really ever approached having a contract of that value, so it wouldn't really make sense for Treliving to mention it when no one has come within $1 million of Gio/Gaudreau's cap hit since Johnny signed.
Regardless, Gaudreau signed 3 years ago when the cap was 89.6% of this year's cap. With the rate at which the cap goes up every year, it would be foolish to think they could maintain the same internal player cap for 6 seasons.
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I'd be shocked if Tre said anything like that out loud.
That said, I think the cap percentage isn't the issue between players on the same team. I think that the players get that the percentage at the time of signing is the issue intellectually. On the other hand, they are human and I would imagine it rankles a bit to see a younger, less experienced and possibly less talented player get paid more than you. Not paid more because they play in a different era, paid more because they signed three years later. Gio, I'm not worried about - he's a vet who's been all over the depth chart so I'd think he's well-centred. Johnny, though, I could see thinking "I'm the best forward on this team, I should make the most". Not vocally, just a nagging thought.