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Originally Posted by Vinny01
These bridge deals were signed before Covid and in a situation where the cap was absolutely going to go up with a new US TV deal, expansion etc. the pandemic hit and a flat cap resulted after the fact. The only reason Laine and Dubois are different is they signed a 2 year deals so they look good now but at the time the Laine deal was signed he was looking for the $10M deal a year sooner than Tkachuk, Point, Boeser, Meier, etc.
The pandemic screwed the bridge deals up because of an unforeseen flat cap as a result of something outside of league control
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So it's the flat cap that kept Tkachuk, Point, Boeser, Mierer, Dubois, Laine from not being the best players in league and deserving of 10M contracts... nothing to do with 6 of the 7 having their career years before signing their second contract.. Boeser actually had his career best in 20-21 who would picked him to earn the big bucks?
The teams and agents thought that the career years were the minimum or maybe the norm, when in fact they really have a better chance of being actual career years.