Forget the pre lockout contracts, but teams are overpaying players like Brierre, Drury, Gomez, Penner and so on. Even Crosby is overpay at 8.7M per year. I think the top players should be paid 7M/yr, max (like Joe Thorton).
There seem to be a big gap in salaries, we get a lot of players in the 7M range then the next tier drop to 5M and the rest are at 2M or lower(some of the lower group are underpay in my opinion to compensate the big contracts). In some ways this makes the NHL as a whole more competitive because the top teams simply can't keep all their players. Result is - there will be no more dynasty and a different winner each year.
We now get teams like the TB Lightning that play with only one line for the past two seasons. The Senators lost Chara and Havlat, traded away Scheafer and will probably lose Redden next summer if not at the trading deadline, and will eventually be down to a one line team like the Lightning.
When will the NHL teams stop overpaying the top players?
2007-09-20
15:58:28
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