Quoting: Capitalfail67
look at boston. they are a great example. Oilers went to the WCF i believe. look at thw Hawks when they won their cups.... players got paid after they won.. there actually a lot of examples.. players should get paid after they win ... makes the most sense.
For the sake of a salary cap argument, sure, they're both paid as much or more than their comparables.
Re: Chicago, in 2010, when Kane and Toews both signed $6.3 mil extensions, the cap was $59.4 mil. That's 10.6% of the cap each. Both of those extensions were signed in December 2009, before they won their first cup. Not exactly a discount, considering it was their first deals post ELC. Connor signed his extension after their trip to the semi finals. They haven't made the conference finals in a long 'ol while.
As for Boston, looking at them today, they're all fairly team-friendly. Bergeron's extension was around 10% of the cap. Pasta resigned when he had .68 ppg (Nylander was .72 when he resigned, with a higher salary cap).
At the end of the day, my assumption is that Dubas was fine giving out deals that were slightly over the 10% range because league-wide assumption had the cap growing to $85-87 mil for next season.