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Originally Posted by MrMike
That’s closer, but I still think too much. Why do these contracts keep going up when the salary cap isn’t going up.
3 years 4 million, kind of around what Ferland got from the Canucks
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It's because the salary cap actually did go up. The Salary cap stayed at 81.5M, but you added an additional team without adding new contracts. As a result you actually added something like $2.5M per team in cap space this season. Last season the GMs felt the cap squeeze, and the inability to make significant roster moves. This season it pushes them to enjoy the relative freedom, and into some bad decisions.