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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
17 Forwards have a cap hit north of 9M in the league right now. That number is only going up. There is no way that Hall will sign for less then that.
Right now there are 4 LW ( according to cap friendly) making more than 9M
1. Artemi Panarin
2. Alex Ovechkin
3. Jamie Benn
4. Jeff Skinner
RW there are 5.
1. Mitchell Marner
2. Patrick Kane
3. Mark Stone
4. Nikita Kucherov
5. Mikko Rantanen
there are 8 centres who have a cap hit of 9M.
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Well, hopefully GMs learn some lessons from these contracts.
Some of those LWs are looking bad:
Benn has 16 points in 34 games, and 5 years left at 9.5. Ouch
Jeff Skinner is at 18 points in 34 games. His career best was 63 points last year albeit with 40 being goals. Still seemed high on signing and isn’t looking like value off the hop
Then you have some others like Patrick Kane. He delivers value for money individually, but this contract was signed long ago in concert with the Toews deal and spelled the end of the Hawks’ competitive window. The cap has finally risen to where they may be able to theoretically work with these deals, you could argue, but Chicago is having a really rough year
Likewise, Marner joins 2 other guys where the 3 of them eat up 33 million, so you have to consider how the deal fits in a team structure, in terms of who gets paid, and how you ice the rest of the team
I like Brad’s (what appears to be) pragmatism more than I like Hall north of 9. Because that becomes a horse to which you are hitching your wagon