L’image provient de « Spittin’ Chiclets ». Sid a ouvert la voie en matière de contrats de « remise dans sa ville natale » parmi le « Core ». De l’argent a été laissé sur la table pour garantir qu’il y en aurait suffisamment pour constituer une équipe compétitive. Letang et Malkin l’ont fait également et encore au cours des 2 dernières années. Sid fera probablement un autre accord, amical avec l’équipe et la casquette, pour s’assurer que ce qui reste de la fenêtre a toujours le potentiel d’être maximisé. En tant que fan, je serai toujours reconnaissant d’avoir observé l’équipe depuis la fin des années 80, la transition de la « vieille garde », à la douleur de la « génération X », puis à l’ère Crosby. Merci, M. Crosby, d’être le leader de cette équipe et d’avoir donné l’exemple au reste des gars à suivre en ne prenant pas de contrat d’argent maximum (ou presque maximum) pour vous enrichir uniquement. Quant à Matthews, il pourra tenter de décrocher un autre contrat (s’il est en bonne santé) alors qu’il a encore moins de 30 ans ET le plafond aura alors augmenté. Bien pour lui. Mais, oui, étant donné la structure actuelle du plafond rigide. Avec ce contrat, il sera mieux payé que MacKinnon et McDavid.
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Stitch_Jones_Recon
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What Sid and the gang did was big for the team, no doubt. But I also understand Matthews too, money is more of a « safe life bet » as taking a discount is no guarantee of a cup.
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Incidentally, I wonder what percentage of NHL players are more interested in maximizing earnings over winning a cup.
Crosby’s deal kicked in during the 2013 season and accounted for about 14% of the team’s total salary cap. Matthews’ deal will kick in during the 2024 season and account for about 15% of the team’s total salary cap if it goes up to the projected 87.5 – 88 million. Not that huge of a difference.
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once the cap increases this is going to be extremely reasonable and team friendly. the kid is insanely talented and his generation needs to be making better money. sid deserved more too
Crosby’s cap hit was not seen as this massive « hometown discount » at the time. Below cap max, yes, but it was still a big chunk of the max cap.
Also, players are allowed to be paid their fair market value and is healthier for players around the league when that happens as well.
Gonna be a little harder for Dubas to pull off the trade in a few years from now lol
Really curious to see what crosbys next contract will end up being. I know he’ll sign something, will probably be short and could very well be for 8.7 AAV again.
There wasn’t a discount with Crosby’s contract…
Matthews biggest flaw is his inability to stay healthy. He has a better shooting percentage than Ovechkin and a solid points per game and plus minus.
Can’t say how much of a leader he is, but he’s in cursed Toronto so he’s not going to win a cup there. Just ask 3 time Stanley Cup champion Phil Kessel.
Anyone else hope to see the Pens vs Leafs in the playoffs?
Matthew’s *is* taking a discount
Sid quote from Spittin Chiclets
“I think the max at that time was $10.5 (million). I remember I was willing to take a little less. But taking a little less doesn’t work if everyone doesn’t take a little less… Geno took a little less, Tanger took a little less, Kuny took a little less. And it worked out.”
Crosby didn’t take a hometown discount. The cap was much lower, and Crosby took up around the same percentage of the cap as matthews just took with his new deal
I just always assumed Crosby was on an 8.7mil a year deal bc he is superstitious, not because he was taking a hometown discount
Matthews is electric. He is worth the money, even if he hasn’t brought them to the promised land yet.
Crosby definitely got underpaid in term of NHL contract but from what I saw on the internet, he remains in the top 5 most wealth athlete in the NHL history. Malkin isn’t too far behind him. I’m not so sure we can say that Matthews got the most amount of cash that he could have, the only bad part for the Leaf is the length of this contract. He could have had his 15m if he wanted to, just not whit the Leaf. Negotiating a contract doesn’t only include the player himself and the team.
Everything you said plus he’s still in Toronto.