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Originally Posted by ricardodw
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.
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It's a lot of things.
*Many teams tight to the cap.
*Expectation of an increasing cap with the TV deal.
*Players offering to do smaller AAV on short term deals with big qualifiers.
*One GM blinking (was it Tampa?) creating the push on the other teams.
*Flat cap making the big qualifier a bigger issue than it would have been.