Ziggdiezan
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- Apr 10, 2015
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I understand percentage of caps and your using this years stats whereby the goals/game and amount of PPG players in the league are much higher than previous years. Everyone has padded stats so far and as we approach the playoffs, teams will tighten up and scoring will decrease. That or the goalie equipment changes worked.It's cap inflation. As the cap goes higher, the percentages players get stay relatively similar.
In 2016 there was a 71.4M cap. Given the cap will be at 83 million when this extension kicks in, this is similar to a player being signed to a contract that is a tad above 5M in 2016.
Not to mention, his regular season points per game averages out to about 59 points per 82 games.
Here's some perspective on why your cries about a lockout are hyperbole. Ryan Nugent-Hopkin's post ELC contract would be 7.75M x 7 years if equalized to an 83 million dollar cap. That's with 3 UFA years being bought up. It was signed after he had scored around 70 points in 100 games. There's an array of similar contracts which that formula can be done for to illustrate that players have been getting similar contracts for most of the last decade. People just fail to account for cap inflation and lose their minds.
This contract seems like a bargain to me. They have locked down a top 6 player who has been beastly in the last two playoffs to a very reasonable cap hit and term that doesn't contain any signing bonuses and only has modest trade protection.
Using a recent first overall as your main comparison to Guentzel is a pretty terrible idea especially when they were a center on a poor Edmonton teams vs a winger playing with Crosby. Then there is the whole thing about RNH breaking into the NHL right after being drafted vs Guentzel at 22.
I dont think the McDavid contract or some of the RFA contracts that will been given this upcoming summer fit in with your narrative btw. Show me some players coming off their ELC who got paid the most in the league while buying so few UFA years due to the new max 8 year contracts.
Again I think this contract is a good one relative to the contacts we are seeing handed out now.