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Originally Posted by iamca
I don’t get the value in making him the highest paid player in the league.
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He's the first of the mega stars (100+ pts every year) to get a new UFA equivalent contract based on the new projected salary cap.
He was always going to get the largest AAV contract in NHL History. It's just math as a % of cap. The projections are that it will be around $92M in a couple of years.