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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Almost all the recent championship teams also had front loaded long term contracts on their team. This strategy is no longer an option. Pittsburgh and Washington recent cups had Crosby, AO and Backstrom on what would now be illegal contracts.
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Backstrom was on year 8 of his now-illegal 10 year contract. The biggest difference would have been a
lower cap-hit as they would have taken up less UFA years had he signed an 8 year contract.
Ovechkin was making 9.5M, he's making 9.5M now.
Neither were backloaded or included retirement years, quite the opposite.
Crosby at least fits the argument, but I'm not sure we should go against his superstitions and assume he would have anything other than an 8.7M cap hit.
A least the Hawks with Hossa (first through third recent cups) and Keith (Second and third recent cups) actually did have contracts that wouldn't fly today. But the real value in contracts was having Toews and Kane's ELC's during their first cup, and the end of their second contracts during their third cup, all of which were legal contracts then and today.