Little Fury
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- Jun 21, 2006
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This exactly. People are arguing "But McDavid is better than Gaudreau!!!" Yeah no doubt everyone knows that. But he's about to be paid nearly TWICE as much. Connor is going to make 20% more than the next highest paid guys in the game. Being 10th in scoring (with nearly everyone ahead of him having games in hand) is unacceptable for someone with the most lucrative contract in the game's history.
Connor is making about a million bucks before bonuses this year.
Also people will argue that the cap hit will change over time and all that. McDavid's contract "might" be well priced one day. For one we don't know that, and two why are we paying for future performances when most other contracts (i.e. Gaureau, Monahan, Tavares) pay for their recent level of production.
It's a gamble and a pretty reasonable one at that. What else are they supposed to do with a 20 year old coming off an Art Ross and Hart-winning season? Bridge him? LMAO.