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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
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.
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Tkachuk was kind of that guy for us, his last year of the ELC we had the 50 win team before he got paid.
Allowed us the opportunity to add another elite forward and we tried, but we had The Real Deal eating up 5.5 cap space along with the buyout for Troy the Boy.
If you don't have that on the cap, I would probably still pull the trigger on Stone even if he was reluctant to sign.