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Originally Posted by dino7c
My guess is this post doesn't age well. The best player and scorer of all time was under PPG at 38
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The best player of all time was physically broken at 38 in an era of hockey which doesn't exist anymore.
BTW this contract ends with Draisaitl at 36. Not old at all for an elite player. Crosby is older than that right now.
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Originally Posted by butterfly
So 515 points in 656 games? I can see that. That deserves 15.2% of cap?
Why are you paying him for the past when the contract is for what hasn't happened yet?
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Why were we offering Johnny Gaudreau - 8 years x $10.5M for which was the largest contract in Flames history at that time.
It's just how the business works. The player has spent his entire career with the team and was actually underpaid on his last contract. The same player ends up getting a little overpaid on their UFA contract.