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Originally Posted by dino7c
To just gloss over it and say he was the best player in the NHL for two months so he should be the highest paid player in the NHL by 3M is kinda dumb..
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People were saying he
should be the highest the paid player in the league by 3 mil? I don't recall reading anything like that. It's been more that he
did get this contract because of holding the Wild over a barrel and that it's fine for the Wild because of where they are in their build, and where they'd go if they lost him to UFA this summer (into another rebuild).
He's an elite player, arguably top 5 forward in the game. If you're a cold, non destination market like Calgary, Minnesota etc and you have that player and it costs $17mil AAV in a new cap era of constantly rising amounts each season, you sign that and be happy.
I wish the Flames were our roster + Kaprisov at $17AAV, rather than what we have + praying that by some dumb luck we get an elite forward in the draft that lines up with Wolf's prime.