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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
It is a different Cap, and UFAs get bigger contracts than RFAs even if they deserve less. PPG players don't go to market very often.
Don't get me wrong. I think anything north of 10M AAV for JG would be obscene. But Free agency day is a blood bath.
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Suter and Parise made 88M plus a 6.666M buyout while playing 9 seasons in Minnesota for 10.5M/year on average. During those same years, Montreal and Nashville paid Weber 98M for him to play for them for 9 seasons approaching 11M a year. Top UFAs have been paid 10M/year for over a decade now even if an imaginary number that doesn't impact their bank account said they were making less.
Tavares' highest career year with the Islanders was 86 points, and his last year he didn't even lead them in scoring (Barzal did), yet he still got 11M for 7 years.
During the earlier cap years, players like Ovechkin and Iginla were making substantially more than 12% of the cap (10M with 82.5M cap is 12.12%).
Not really sure why you would find Gaudreau making 10M obscene. It almost has to be a guarantee.