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Originally Posted by stemit14
Not sure if it actually applies in the NHL, but I think it’s supposed to be some twist on the trickle-down economics theory. If McDavid is worth $17.5 million, then Draisaitl is worth $14.7 million. If Draisaitl is worth $14.7 million, Keller is worth $12 million. If Keller is worth $12 million, Jarvis is worth $10 million. And so on until you get to Blake Coleman being worth $7 million.
I know that’s not an exactly how it ends up working but I think that’s the thought process for the argument that the Players Association would push the top guys to take as much as they can.
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I don't know how the other leagues work and putting aside the fallacy of trickle-down economics for the moment, under the NHL's cap system, that thought process is senseless. As I said in my earlier post, there's one pie per team. If some players get bigger slices, other players get smaller pieces because there is only so much pie to go around.
There isn't any complexity to this; no complex (or otherwise) economic theory changes the math. If the NHLPA is too dense to figure this out, they should be replaced.