Lil Sebastian Cossa
Opinions are share are my own personal opinions.
- Jul 6, 2012
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No, they're not a Sergachev away from being a contender... but add Sergachev and subtract Drouin and they're not a massive underdog having Price steal them a series. Hell, with Serg instead of Drouin, they're probably not playing Toronto at all.
And again, goalies haven't had a huge portion of the cap because of the way the cap was instituted. Now, teams are starting to shell out dollars for top tier goalies again. Guys like Jacob Markstrom, Jordan Binnington, Gibson are getting ~6M on pretty young deals. Vasilevskiy got 9.5. No young players got big dollars and long term deals until the McDavid, Eichel, Matthews pushes. Before then, a kid got a long term deal and it was ludicrously team friendly. That's how you got Roman Josi at 4M for 6 years. Oskar Klefbom at 4.15 for long term. Nathan f***ING MacKinnon at 6.3M for 7 years.
To answer the percent of cap... since the inception of the cap, you've had maybe 3 goalies each season that even approach 10%. And what happens to your stats if Vasilevskiy wins the Cup again? The trend was lower paid goalies because contending teams were working out the best way to build a roster coming out of a massive cap adjustment out of the first lockout and the small market teams didn't pay a ton for goalies as it stood. Like the Red Wings when they brought back Osgood. That was out of pure necessity. They literally didn't have the cap space to bring in any other goalie. It wasn't a conscious choice to have a small salary in net, it's what was left after they had already signed.
