RandV
It's a wolf v2.0
And to further emphasize this, it was a 12 year back diving contract. Take the first 8 years only and the cap hit would be 10.8M.The Pens won the Cup in 2009 with Crosby's $8,700,000 AAV taking up 15.34% of the $56,700,000 cap.
That works out to an AAV of $12,812,169 under the current cap of $83,500,000. Which is more than McDavid and MacKinnon make.
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The actual value of contracts were hidden in plain sight for that period of time, where teams were offsetting cap hits by taking risks on excessively long term.