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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Thank you for this.
And knowing this, I think the strategy should be to get guys signed to long term deals. Kadri is expensive at $7M, but if the cap goes up by 5% per year, it looks a lot less painful in 3 years.
$7M is 8.4% of next year's cap, then 8.0% in 24/25, then 7.6% in 25/26 (that is the equivalent of $6.25M this year)
The same declining ratios would apply for Lindholm (and everyone else, obviously). The contracts that look expensive now, are going to look good in a few years. We are already starting to see some players take short term deals so that they can get paid big in 2 or 3 years, and I'll bet we see more and more players doing this.
Get in front of it and sign Lindholm right now.
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That’s why I utilize cap $’s by % of cap. Which, as you said, makes it easier to stomach the Kadri deal.