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Originally Posted by transplant99
8 million is what it costs for those guys now....just look around the league.
If you never want to pay them that, then it will forever be a turnstile of players without building something, and you become a feeder system for the rest of the league to pick at.
The game has changed and so has who gets paid and when.
Lowe/Tambellini/whoever started this with the absurd 6X6 deals and we have seen the predictable results of inflation on top of it all.
People point to Dubas signing Nylander and Matthews to their deals, but it all started where all the no goodness starts, Toronto just took it over the top.
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Top players will always get that amount it's just that top players are increasingly younger now and that's what it takes to grab them.
I used to think it was the oil that ruined the second contract but it's the lack of a third and fourth contract for most of these guys that increased the pay day.