Edited Nov. 6, 2020 at 1:56 a.m.
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Quoting: DartGuy86
If you read through each team's depth chart and tally the salaries being paid to 4th line guys and mid-bottom pairing defensemen excluding ELCs, there's no way you could hold that same opinion. As for Marner, he takes up a smaller percentage of his team's cap than Crosby did when he signed his 'team friendly' 8.7aav deal. Again, you could say he's slightly overpaid, but not by much.
Go add up any teams top 4 players contracts and come back to me with any teams that are within 10M of Toronto’s. But I guess Toronto just has a surplus of talent more than any other team. Not bad contracts.lol.
10 Million plus more man. Not 2M, not 4M. 10-20M more than any other NHL team for 4 players.
You want to know the teams that are close? 2 teams within 10M. Most of them are 12-20M difference b/ween their top 4 players and Toronto’s top 4. Not too mention top 4 forwards, top D and starting goalie.
TB. Has 2 Forwards, Kucherov(9.5M), Stamkos(8.5M), a D-man; Hedman (7.8M) and their goalie Vasilevskiy(9.5M). That’s still 4.7M less. And TB is in Salary cap hell right now. Over the cap and don’t even have a 20 person roster.
Washington capitals have Ovi(9.5M), J.Carlson(8M), Backstrom(9.2M), Kutnetsov(7.8M). That’s 5.5M less still and not 4 forwards. U want to add their 4 forwards, 1 D, and their starting goalie? That would be 41.7M compared to Toronto’s top 4 forwards, top D, and starting goalie at 51.6M. That’s a 10M difference.
Every other NHL team 10 Million plus less than Toronto. Again, not 2M, Not 4M, Not 6M...F-ing 10M. 4 players @ 2.5M a year difference plus.
Do the math, come back to me with any other team with 4 or 6 players in salary cap Hell as much as Toronto.?? I’ll wait.