golffuul
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Interesting. The two highest Cap Hit players to win a Cup since 2010 (where their Cap hit was realized in the year they won), are Ovechkin and Malkin (9.53 and 9.5 respectively). Toews and Kane got their contracts (10.5M AAV) after winning in 2015.Edm is a mess. They are not the Pens. Malkin and Crosby committed early on to a 200ft game with some grit. I hated them as a Wings fan, but you had to recognize how special they were as players. They also took pretty solid deals even at the time they signed them. That allowed the pens to fill in some low cost vets.
It's incredibility hard to build a team around a 12+ mil forward. Then there was the Keith trade which made no sense. I get wanting to add vet leadership but not a guy on his way out, with a huge cap hit, giving up assets, that has already won a bunch of cups. Bring in the vet that hasn't won one yet. The Dallas Drake/ Duke kind of guy. Then there was the issue of completely not addressing the goalie situation. Yeah you can go for a middling guy if you have the likes of Lids, Konstaninov, Chelios, Rafalski etc on your dline, not so much when your best dman is Nurse (who is about to probably be overpaid).
The best thing Edm could do is probably deal McDavid to help solidify defense/ goaltending and then sign some offensive depth/grit. Build around Drai and his 4 mil lower cap hit.
I wonder if we'll ever see a Cup winner where a roster has a player whose salary exceeds 12-13% or a combination of three players whose salaries are 1/3 of a team's cap hit. It'll be an interesting statistic to be aware of going forward.