Very telling of the financial straits of that time period that the exact same group of players collectively made about 20% more money (CAD) in the span of about 10 months. (And that's factoring for Canadian dollar's value vs USD actually going up over the course of the 1995 calendar year.)
Two years later Chris Gratton was making >$10,000,000 (USD). Inflation-adjusted that's the equivalent of about $17.6M in today's dollars. Can you imagine a player like Chris Gratton making that kind of scratch in today's NHL? Absolutely ####ing bananas how quickly NHL player salaries escalated in the 1990s.
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