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Originally Posted by Locke
Yeah, fact of the matter remains that you can look at an increasing cap essentially as inflation.
While the Cap will go up, in that time the contractual cost of players, all players, will increase accordingly.
The $4M guy in 2023 will be a $5M in 2025/26. The cap goes up, so do the salary demands. Its not like the cap goes up and the new players get paid the same.
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This is why long-term deals are a great value for players in their early to mid 20s, where their play gets better but their cap hit becomes more and more of a bargain over time.
The Flames are unfortunately using this logic to overpay for older players now, who will remain overpaid as their play gets worse even as their relative cap hit depletes.