Last one of the season talking about if McDavid has reset the bar for contracts.
One GM looked up and down the league, naming teams who need to worry and those who don’t. He listed Boston, Calgary and Tampa Bay as examples of those who shouldn’t be affected. They have “internal caps†with their best players signed long-term and no superb talent ready to surpass them.
He labelled Columbus (“What if Zachary Werenski wins a Norris in the next two years?â€), Los Angeles (Doughty), Ottawa (Karlsson), Toronto (Auston Matthews et al) and Winnipeg (Patrik Laine, Jacob Trouba) as those who have thrown their previous projections in the garbage and hurriedly re-programmed spreadsheets.