Rejoint: juin 2022
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Of the 14 players currently making currently at $10M - cups won, doughnut. Toews and Kane were at $7.5M when they won their 3 cups. NHL GMs may be good hockey people, but they are not finance majors. Take Edmonton for example, Connor is a great player, no doubt but 1/7 of the payroll to 1 guy leaves no room for the supporting cast. My Broadway Blueshirts find themselves in the same pickle They six contracts that take up 5/8 of the payroll. As a Ranger fan Sid Crosby is not on my Top Ten list (I recognize his talent, but he is a Penguin). But he has selflessly taken $8.7M for years and this left PIT with the ability to bring in a core group, priced responsibly, and all those Penguins, and we know who they are, also have three cups on their resumé. TBY is another good example. At todays, cap ceiling, in my world, Connor sets the standard at $10M. I have seen every Stanley Cup Champion crowned since 1956. Beginning with great MTL teams of the 1950s, every Cup winner has sported a roster that includes scorers, defenders, goalies, grit guys and muscle. The Cup is the hardest trophy in professional sports to win, and you certainly need great players, but you also need a supporting cast. In other words, it takes all 23 guys to get the job done. Even in a scenario where Connor sets the standard at $10M, all the other players would be multi-millionaires at the end of their career. They all owe a debt of gratitude to Ted Lindsay, Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull. They were the pioneers. Ted formed the NHL Players union at a time when he put his playing career at great risk. Howe and Hull jumped to newly formed World Hockey Association to much larger contracts in an attempt to put pressure on NHL franchises to raise player salaries and benefits. It worked. Until the top stars in the game today follow Sid Crosby's example, it appears to me that they are in it for buck, not the Cups.