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Originally Posted by dino7c
I get it, from a players point of view they are dumb though...the top guys make billionare owners far more money than they get back so their team can stay under the owner/league mandated salary cap and win a prize that costs the league nothing to hand out.
Quite the racket honestly. Top players should be trying to push the salary up, I mean somebody is gonna win the cup with an over 10 hit sooner rather than later. Probably this season. McDavid is too dumb though...Nurse gets 9.5 but he gets 12.5 lol
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But again, you guys aren't understanding the economics of the salary cap, at all. Jarome Iginla was close to a Kaprisov contract in his day in the mid 2000's (even slightly more, maybe?). Do you not see that a $39mil salary cap, a $70mil salary cap and a $100 mil salary cap are going to produce much different AAV on player contracts? I feel I'm taking crazy pills here.
We can all see and agree that star players are all going to be over $10mil AAV for the most part, going forward and therefore the statement that someones, old school claim of teams won't win cups with a player making over $10mil AAV is an absurd, absolutely goofball statement in today's NHL, as it's basically saying "no NHL shall win a cup while paying ANY STAR player what they're worth??