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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
2013 - top 10 contracts at the time
Weber 7.857
Parise 7.538
Suter 7.538
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I think there's still some residual impacts from these still. The idea that these are 7.5M contracts, although correct with respect to salary cap, is pretty laughable position to take for salary when Parise, who is already 35, will have made 80M over the last 8 years for a 10M AAV.
Just because these contracts have some 1M years added until they are 55 years old doesn't change the fact to new UFA's that Weber, Suter and Parise were all getting 10M a year in actual cold hard cash. So that's how you end up with Tavares, a better player than Parise when the cap is much higher, making 11M (and allegedly offered 13M by the Sharks).
So there's two competing issues happening right now, first is the fact that the top players (not just Crosby and Ovechkin, but the Suters and Parises) have been making 10M a year for a decade now and new top tier UFAs still wanting to make that, or more. And then the RFAs wanting their fair share of the pie when they see 'comparable' players making huge amount simply due to the notion they signed as UFAs.