Rumor: Dater: MacKinnon Seeking to Be the NHL's Highest Paid Player
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KCC
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It's just weird how he can be so good at times but has never won an Art Ross, Rocket or Lindsay and never even hit 100 points in a season which is pretty nuts. And while he was good, Makar was actually the player that put the team to cup status. But he was under paid for a long time so he deserves a huge raise. If that's the biggest contract so be it. Avs basically need to give him a blank check at this point. lol
HuGort
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Wonder if he would come to Montreal? Habs have 17 million in expiring contracts this season. Plus strong chance they trade Dvorak by deadline. Which will make 22 million in caproom. May go to 32 million as Price could be done.
Be big turn around Habs draft Bedard and sign MacKinnon same off sesson
Tralfamadore
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Sure but then you didn't address they were constructed differently with a much older defense while Makar and Bryam are both extremely young still.
He deserves it after taking a pay cut and winning a cup. Plus any big free agent always gets big contracts anyway so he due anyway. Plus in 3 years he probably won’t even have the biggest contract anyway.
That’s a nice dream. Maybe another player but won’t be mackinnon.
byrath
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Yep we generally loved our GMs overpaying for old players because of no cap, usually didn't even know or care how much the players made.
Compare to now, I probably have more knowledge of players contracts than their previous years point totals 
HuGort
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You never know? Chance to play with Badard and for MSL. Not many teams will have Montreal's caproom next summer.
The Red Line
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Very likely, you should count on it...
How is playing for MSL in any way a draw for a guy like Mackinnon? Honest question.
The Red Line
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lmao not every GM is Dubas.... there is no obligation for GMs to vastly overpay all their players like he did.
The Red Line
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Yes but you said ANY free agent. I'm calling out this logic, and reminding you that this is the exact reason your team has been and will be in a cap crunch for years. It isn't a good method to build a team.
He's gonna get paid, yeah. But simply giving a guy "whatever he wants" is a Dubas move, that's all I'm saying. Granted, Mack is better than any of the guys Dubas has vastly overpaid.
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The Red Line
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He's coached 37 games in his entire life at any level.... he isn't anything.
Anders Cain
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Yeah it's not a pretty read over there lol....Don't ever come to our board. There's some people talking about trading him. Talk about what a SC offseason can do
Mack = blank check. Can't let him walk and expect to do as well by replacing him with cheaper centers...
He already did.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
ElLeetch
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Yep we generally loved our GMs overpaying for old players because of no cap, usually didn't even know or care how much the players made.
Which to me, is one of the negatives of the cap. It made fans care about the financials of sports teams. We never needed to care about that before.
BKarchitect
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I mean in the last five years he’s finished second in Hart voting twice and third another time and he’s paced for over 100 points each of the last five years except 18/19 when he actually had 99 points. I think there’s a really good argument to be made he should have won the 17-18 Hart and if he had or if he had not just missed a handful of games every year I think the visceral impact of his resume would be of a higher profile even though it would essentially be the same.
He may not have won the Smythe this post-season either and he may not be the captain but the guy is absolutely the “inertia” that moves this entire franchise. All you have to do is read Nichushkin’s post-season interview to see what MacK’s drive means to this team. He’s the driving force on and off the ice with his crazy work ethic and expectations for himself and his teammates.
So when you add everything up I think he’s unassailably been on of the top 2, 3 or 4 premier players in the NHL the last five years and expecting a contract commensurate with that is hardly being greedy. I’m not saying this Dater report is verbatim “true” but I’m also not expecting MacK to simply take some huge “hometown” discount, not after the bargain deal he’s been on and not after leading the team to a Cup.
We believe that we write up and draft contracts. The truth is that they draft us; we are their creatures, shaped by their rigid, defining clauses. When hockey players sign a contract they are given a sweater, a jersey stamped with the insignia of the Franchise. Their acceptance of that contract is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of an NHLer—they are hockey players from that moment, though they may know nothing of what it takes to win. I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious kind of analytics. The would-be analyst alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.
When MacKinnon accepted that contract he was signing the best contract in the NHL. It is superstition to believe that the knowledge MacKinnon would later become one of the best players in the league somehow improved the value of the contract.
When Mackinnon signed his contract, he was not signing the best contract in the NHL. He never took less. He signed for what he did because he hadn't earned any more.
KlefDown
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so many people throwing a fit in this thread lmaoo
do they not realize MacK is one of the very few players that can be the highest paid NHL player AND still have taken a discount???
same people that used to lick his boots because of his contract now hate him????
do they not realize MacK is one of the very few players that can be the highest paid NHL player AND still have taken a discount???
same people that used to lick his boots because of his contract now hate him????
Blacephalon
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