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Originally Posted by curves2000
the NHL is different than other leagues, you usually don't win if your players are making big money. Years ago I came across a stat that is still true today, a player making more than $10mi AAV hasn't won a cup since the lockout era of 2005. Players have won making $9, 10 but not more.
You need elite, young, explosive talent and those impact players need to be cheap compared to other leagues. Massive name, massive market where the sport is #1 like in Canada? Good luck. Canada has enough problems keeping top talent in UFA off-season.
Canadian teams are pretty much forced to overpay, haven't delivered in 4 decades, produce the highest end talent and it's our #1 sport. Imagine if the US couldn't compete at NFL football. Imagine teams like the Patriots, Cowboys, 49'ers not being able to retain top talent.
It's different these days. More elite guys should do the Tom Brady move and take massive discounts and make up for it with winning and historical greatness while having significant influence on team decisions.
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What the hell are you on about? You're talking about stats related to "cap hits under and over $10mil AAV" in regards to winning championships over multiple decades while the economic landscape evolves each year to match league revenue and inflation?? Do you even have a basic understanding of the salary cap and it's rise over the years? Like do you understand there were star players making $7mil in your golden years that won cups that would carry a cap hit of $17-$19mil AAV present day due to the current salary cap?
Like what kind of dumb theory is that when the cap goes up year after year and is going up at a crazy rate in the next few years? That's an absurd, silly, uneducated take on what it takes to win a Stanley Cup. If you have zero understanding of what a player's cap hit is as a percentage of the cap in that given year then what are you even doing saying what you're saying?
What are you, Lou Lamoriello trying to manage the cap in present day? "And I declared that there shall be NO PLAYER WITH A CAP HIT OVER $10MIL AAV CAP HIT!!! IT WORKED 15 years ago!!!!
*While every single star player on every team signs for over $10mil AAV, present day.