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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
And yet most of these players were the highest paid players on their teams by far when they won the cup. Some to the tune of $10M.
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The examples I'm referring to include Chicago, LA, and Pittsburgh, which all won with ELC/below market second contracts for their star players in their initial cups.
In many of the situations where the top picks became high paid, they took (often significant) discounts along the way to help the team build around them. So yes, some cases of these players being high paid when they eventually won a cup, but the strength of the team around them was related to their concessions along the way.