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Originally Posted by The Cobra
It’s the going rate these days.
If the Flames cannot win with two players making that much, there will be many teams who will shortly be in similar straights.
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No team has signed a contract with an AAV over $10 million since the start of COVID. The last of those contracts were signed in the summer of 2019.
GMs are willing to throw around that kind of money when they expect the cap to continue rising. When everyone knows the cap is going to be approximately flat for years to come, the calculations change.