There are essentially zero COVID restrictions on anything within Canada, and haven't been for months.
Just an utterly strange (and I'm being generous) statement to mix in a Mackinnon discussion.
Rumor: Dater: MacKinnon Seeking to Be the NHL's Highest Paid Player
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Just an utterly strange (and I'm being generous) statement to mix in a Mackinnon discussion.
Casper The Soy Ghost
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That's bullshit as well.
The guy you quoted was right, you overdid it though.
MacKinnon at that cap at that term where he was at when he signed it was definitely well worth it.
The Kingslayer
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he was underpaid biggest he signed that deal after coming off the worse season of his career. He probably thought he was overpaid at that point.
Lt Dan
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Which is bonkers to me. Everyone is over the moon with the Nuke contract but is nickel and diming Mack? Very weird.
Its crazy to me. Any franchise would be over the moon to add Mack. Hes a top 5 center league wide and on any given year could be the best player in the NHL. The fans whining about his future cap hit are spoiled.
blankall
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Dude needs to get paid.
He may not be the absolute best individual player, but he also has the ability to elevate the team around him, hence why he already has a cup ring. Any team with both him and Makar on it is going to be contending. MacKinnon is only 26. He's worth whatever he asks for.
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Yeah. Definitely comes across as fans taking Mack for granted. You can’t lose a top ~5 player in the league and continue to contend.
Yeah thats exactly what i was thinking - totally gives the wrong message. I take it to mean "Mac wants 13 M , meaning he would become the best paid player", but I saw another article saying the same thing.
Absolutely, Him Makar and Rantanen are the Avs and as they go so to do the Avalanche.
The Avs are more fortunate then most to have a trio of phenomenal players in Mack, Makar, and Rantanen. I mean I'm a leafs fan and we have Matthews and Marner but we have no single player after them even close to makar. You keep those 3 and build around what they ask for.
BLONG7
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Others took his money, and if he was smart, he fired his agent...................so much for any high end player, being a good guy for a total change.So Much for him saying a while back that he would take a pay cut to help Colorado stay within cap and build and balanced team
He was never going to leave money on the table again.............others on the team are to blame.
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How many hockey players do you think would choose to play in front of no fans like in Arizona?
Captain Controversy
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Off the top of my head..
Anaheim Ducks
Arizona Coyotes
Boston Bruins
Buffalo Sabres
Calgary Flames
Carolina Hurricanes
Chicago Blackhawks
Columbus Blue Jackets
Dallas Stars
Detroit Red Wings
Edmonton Oilers
Florida Panthers
Los Angeles Kings
Minnesota Wild
Montreal Canadiens
Nashville Predators
New Jersey Devils
New York Islanders
New York Rangers
Ottawa Senators
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
San Jose Sharks
St. Louis Blues
Seattle Kraken
Tampa Bay Lightning
Toronto Maple Leafs
Vancouver Canucks
Vegas Golden Knights
Washington Capitals
Winnipeg Jets
Quinning
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He'd get a max deal for 7 years from whatever teams have the cap space.
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Don't ever come to our board. There's some people talking about trading him. Talk about what a SC offseason can do
Im only going to say…posting something from Dater on here is as much clickbait as Dater himself posting it.
If thats the case, just trade him for a shitload of assets. The team is still a beast without him with Rantanen and Makar leading the force.
Well according to the Avs board during the playoffs (as long as you exempt after the cup was won, in which the team was amazing, instead of a bunch of mentally frail losers... well, as long as you started reading after they finally took losses) MacKinnon is garbage, so was presumably already being overpaid in his current contract... So yeah, I imagine we'll have posters extremely upset if he gets paid even 80% of his current contract in an extension, especially if he hits that dreaded senior citizen mark where no one can continue to play well. They will want Sakic fired (again), will want Bednar fired (again), and then if MacKinnon does something good for a game, or for a sustained period, during that time, they will love all 3 (again).
Oh wait, he won a cup a couple days after being shit on mercilessly by a fanbase who already knew the Avs lost the finals and were a bunch of bums, therefore they were never bums to begin with, are a great team, and MacKinnon is underpaid and elite or something, because, you know, a few games in one direction radically changes the make-up of a team and player, and a few more games another way radically change the make-up of a team and player again.
For sure, apparently the only thing he does is skate in circles for a while, has no hockey IQ, and turns the puck over and doesn't help the team, including in the playoffs, and is overpaid and garbage at his current contract. For some reason some GMs, which hfboard posters are far far more competent then, would be interested in giving up a lot of assets to acquire him. Hopefully Sakic moves MacKinnon this offseason, unless he is willing to sign a long-term extension for $3.5M or something. The awesome awful GM will surely make a bad great trade, depending on the hour of the day that you ask.
Don't ever come to our board. There's some people talking about trading him. Talk about what a SC offseason can do
And they shit on him like crazy in the game day threads during the playoff run. And the entire Avs team. It was the most doom and gloom crap I've seen for a cup contender. Although if you read the board, they weren't a cup contender to many, they were just a mentally frail bunch of losers who already lost. What a garbage representation of hockey fans those posters were. That or they are projecting their extreme mental weakness when they don't even play for the team.
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Dater lures you in with a headline aimed to drive up internet traffic and money for himself. If you felt the need to click on any bait so you could tell him and others what a dick he is....he succeeded.
Hopefully over the course of the first 15 pages most realize MacKinnon is not the selfish athlete he's been made out to be. I have no skin in the game other than being used to being steamrolled by Mac and the Avs. He "might" be a selfish athlete, but not because Moron troll journalists come up with a headline implying he is.
Lets drum up traffic for HF Boards, not Dater.
Hopefully over the course of the first 15 pages most realize MacKinnon is not the selfish athlete he's been made out to be. I have no skin in the game other than being used to being steamrolled by Mac and the Avs. He "might" be a selfish athlete, but not because Moron troll journalists come up with a headline implying he is.
Lets drum up traffic for HF Boards, not Dater.
Given who may be better than him and when they are due for new deals, there would be no reason for him not to become the highest paid guy for 23-24. When Matthews hits UFA in 2024, more likely than not he'd pass whatever Mack would be getting. Mack could get $13 mill AAV and Mathews the following season could surpass him. McDavid is up in 2026 and would pass Mack in 3 years time.
Again, it's completely up to him what he wishes to do. but, he wouldn't remain the highest paid player in the NHL for long if he gets a deal that surpasses McDavid's cap hit.
Exactly.
You can try to make Crosby's contract approach being legal by removing the last 3 backsliding years. He was effectively getting 17.6% of the cap when he signed.
That money in today's cap is 14.5 million aav.
Just because bread used to cost a penny doesn't mean you are selfish for wanting to get paid by today's maket value.
I get it and I believe it. He has the cup, and he was badly underpaid for a longtime. Time to get paid
Rumplesnipeskin
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MacK is a very driven human, and wants to be the best player in the game, and if he does that, he will be and should be the highest paid player… so yes, obviously he wants to be the highest paid player, because that means he was the best player in the league. Duh.
Will it happen? I personally don’t think he becomes the highest paid player either way, but would pay him whatever he wants.
Will it happen? I personally don’t think he becomes the highest paid player either way, but would pay him whatever he wants.
