BenedictGomez
Corsi is GROSSLY overrated
The salary cap is $80M, which means if you put together a roster of 23 guys with $2M in cap space, their average salary would be $3.39M. Miles Wood has a below-average cap hit for the next 4 years. If he gets any better, this deal is a win for NJ - if he gets much better, it's a huge win, and Wood has no real way of earning that 'lost' money back.
I think you meant to type 24. But dividing $79.5M by 24 is not how it works to think of reasonable average, because that completely discounts highly paid players, which is the reality.
I'm not saying this Wood contract is batpoop crazy, but I am saying it's excessive for a player who has proved very little, and in a very small timeframe. It didn't used to work like this. You used to have to prove repeatability, now they just hand you the cash like it's a hostage situation, and it definitely has an upward pressure on the cap. That gets us to the eventuality that in 'X' years, we'll once more be in a situation where certain teams have a monetary advantage.