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Originally Posted by gvitaly
You're slightly off.
There are only 13 Centers in the NHL making more than $8.5M.
The 33rd highest paid Center is Tage Thompson at $7.14M. Kadri is 36th.
A low end 2C would be at least 48th on the list, and that's Charlie Coyle who makes $5.25M. Backlund's $5.35M is 46th. Even if the cap goes up by $20M, that's a 25% bump those caphits would be in the range of $6.5-7M
Lindholm at $9M would make him have the 12th highest cap hit among centers. Now I don't see him impacting the game enough on a nightly basis to warrant that price tag.
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The list contains some things that need to be considered though. Like Crosby at under $9M due to the fact that he (a) signed over 10 years ago and (b) he loves the number 87.
Recent contacts are what GMs and agents look at. Barzal signed last year and he makes 9.1. Lindholm is better than Barzal. Barzal, Horvat - those are guys Lindholm's agent is pointing at I bet.