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Honestly, stars were getting paid big money anyways, but just had lower cap hits. All this means now is that depth players are going to have to take paycuts. The David Jones's of the world will have to take smaller contracts to get jobs on teams with any chance of winning (i.e. one with star players).
I think we're going to see a huge imbalance in salary & cap hits between the big guns and depth players compared to '06-'12.
I'm not sure it will be much different salary wise than it was before, cap hit wise it will be. Look at Brad Richards for example, salary wise he is $12m, but has a cap hit of $6.66m. 1st and 2nd liners will really benefit from the first few years of this (ie Stastny won't be overpaid at his current contract, in fact I would be surprised if he is paid a dime less in a few years).
Now as we wind down the years in the CBA I expect that the 2-4th liners will have their salaries jump up. Simply because all of the 1st line/elite/superstar players will all be locked up so teams are going to overpay for the leftover talent.