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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Inflation can come fro more than one place.
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No, Hall was not anywhere close to the highest RFA. Excluding pre-salary cap era (of which he gets obliterated by dozens of players like Fedorov and his 28M in one year poison pill five year contract or Sakic and his 1997 offersheet) there's still Ovechkin who signed his 124M contract 2 and a half years into his career that's still going (until the end of this season).
Also Eberle signed his contract after posting a 0.97 PPG season, good for 12th in the NHL. He was the least controversial of the signings really.
I also somewhat disagree with your premise that top tier UFA's are making more. That's not quite the case. Iginla was making 7M when the cap was 39M, 18%. Today that would be 15M, and no one is making that. Gaborik made 14%, Kovalchuk 16%. McDavid signed at 16% of the cap.