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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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But Lindholm deal doesn't kick in until next year. Right now, there are 30 centers at $7.75 mil or above. That's only $800k less than about what Lindholm is offered. Maybe $1 mil. Next year he could be much lower on the list than 13th. I would say if the cap goes up, Lindholm at $8.5 could be considered low end 1st line C money and in 2 or 3 years it could be high end 2nd line money