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Originally Posted by New Era
As someone who can remember the Young Guns era, and lived through it on this board, you don't want to go through that. It almost cost the city the team.
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I'm not sure this is quite fair.
It was a different world at that stage. The Canadian dollar was in the toilet and there was no salary cap. In that era there were seasons where Joe Sakic was making $16M+, while Jagr was pulling in $14.5M.