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Originally Posted by Keselke
Should get around 10m AAV
No different than Crosby or Malkin getting 8.7 in proportion to where the cap was when they signed their current contracts
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And honestly the Penguins were lucky that Crosby was born in 87.
Ovechkin got 9.5M (over 13 years) in 2008 when the cap was 56.7M, over 15% of the entire cap at the time.
15% of the cap in the 2015-2016 season could be over 11M but it's important to realize while the cap is going up, real-world inflation isn't as quickly.
Getzlaf will be making 8.25M over the 8 years of his contract which will see him reach 36 before it expires so you should be considering a couple of those years as past his prime, especially with his playstyle. An 8 year contract for Kane would
only see him reach 34 by the end of the contract and more-or-less should be considered prime years. Weber between 27 and 34 will be making, in real dollars, 92M or 11.5M a year and have an additional 18M left on his contract despite what his cap hit may be.
Kessel signed a 8M a year contract for about the same age range and Toews and Kane are superior players.
I think the biggest thing the Hawk's have going for them is Malkin's 9.5M dollar contract. Bowman will no doubt be trying to use that as a benchmark but if Kane and Toews only care about money, which I'm not saying they do, I think their agents would have failed them if they get less than an 80M, 10M a year contract.
