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Originally Posted by GullFoss
I thought $9m x 8 years. He could get more, but at some point the money doesn't matter as much. You want lots of money, you want to win, you want to leave a legacy.
I get that $13m is more than $9m. But other things matter too. I'd rather have $72m and a cup and play 8 years of competitive hockey than have $104m and play 8 years of middling hockey and retire with no cup.
To each their own.
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It's really, really tough to predict the bolded. There are normally 4-6 teams at each extreme that you can be sure will be really good or really bad for the next few years. The ~20 teams in the middle aren't necessarily a crapshoot, but things can go pear shaped in a hurry (VGK, NYI, PHI, MTL) or come together faster than expected (FLA, MIN, NYR).
Lots of caveats to each of those examples, but the big thing is how hard it is to get over the hump. Consider how great TBL and COL are and how long it's taken each of them to put it together.