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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Dragon_Matt wrote on Fri, 05 September 2025 12:15 |
I get the idea of pushing the cap, but at the same time more players would make more money if he took less (think Crosby and his 8.7). Also, when a guy's made over 100 mil in a career so far, how much more could he possibly need for 'security'?
Also, if he was to take a lower hit, the more the cap increases the more competitive team we could put around him. Or we could give 4-5 million dollar deals to 4th liners......
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It isn't about security, or about what he's made previously. It's about the fact that every contract in the league is used as a precedent for the contracts that follow - both in negotiations and in arbitration. McDavid is understood to be the best player in the league so he's going to have significant pressure from the NHL to set the bar high on what the best player gets paid because it impacts the other star players - most won't be able to convince their teams to pay them more than what McDavid is making.
There is a certain ego piece to it as well - you're the best, you want to get paid like it. You're not going to want Jack Bleeping Eichel or some other jackhole earning more money than you do.
Finally, the Oilers use of extra cap room in the past probably does hurt them to some extent here. Yes, it's a new administration, but they still see some of those same clowns in the office (Nicholson) or hanging around the lunch room (Lowe, MacTavish). When McDavid signed his last deal, he left us room to build around him and we spent $4MM a year on Kris Russell and ~$1MM a year on Eric Gryba (having to buy him out of the second year of that) and then spent most of the next 3-4 years saying we weren't ready to compete.
We've been fast to overpay marginal players and have NOT had the New England Patriots approach where if your stars are leaving money on the table, then everyone else has to as well. The management has been too scared to overplay that hand, and so they pay everyone top dollar. Given that, taking a team-friendly discount as the guy who actually makes the difference becomes pretty unpalatable. If the team had built some incredible depth we probably already have a couple of Cups. As it is, whether we win or lose in the playoffs generally rides on whether McDavid gets a point...soooo...I think it's understandable if he doesn't rush to give us a $9.7MM/year deal.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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