First off, St. Louis's career high before his Art Ross season was 70 points in 82 games. His history to that point, was 165 points in 282 games....
Next...he put up 60 points in 147 games on his ELC. Not exactly earth shattering numbers.
He signed a 2 year, $2.5M contract after his ELC... This was after a season where he scored 18 goals and had 22 assists. This is hardly a bad contract for 2002-2004...
2003-2004 he comes out of nowhere and puts up 94 points in 82 games. He loses a season to a lockout. After the lockout he gets a 6 year, $31.5M contract... This is after a 24% salary rollback from the lockout...
Jagr that season was the highest paid player at $8.36M, and St. Louis at that point was NOWHERE NEAR Jagr.
Long story short, what the **** are you talking about???