| Makar extends with Colorado $20.4M x 8 [message #852937] |
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 Kr55
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Location: Edmonton
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New biggest contract/cap hit ever on the books.
Frank Seravalli@frank_seravalli
Cale Makar is the #NHL’s first $20 million per year player, signing a record $163.2 million extension in Colorado.
B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce
Highest-Paid players in the NHL (after contract extensions kick in)
🛘 Cale Makar, $20.4M AAV
🦈 Macklin Celebrini, $18.8M AAV
🦆 Leo Carlsson, $18M AAV
🌲 Kirill Kaprizov, $17M AAV
🔴 Connor Bedard, $15M AAV
[Updated on: Fri, 28 August 2026 16:28]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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smyth260
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For comparison, McDavid and Crosby both made around 15.5% of the salary cap in the first year of their biggest deals and consumed the most cap.
With a projected cap of 113.5M when this deal starts, Makar would be at 18%.
This deal is absolutely bonkers.
Clean house or bust
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Kr55
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| smyth260 wrote on Fri, 28 August 2026 23:27 |
For comparison, McDavid and Crosby both made around 15.5% of the salary cap in the first year of their biggest deals and consumed the most cap.
With a projected cap of 113.5M when this deal starts, Makar would be at 18%.
This deal is absolutely bonkers.
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The max a player can sign right now is 20.8M AAV, so Makar gave Colorado a 0.4M discount :)
Next summer will be ~22.7M. Quinn Hughes probably thinking about that right now.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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