So you side with ownership over the players. You don't mind a guy who makes tens and tens of millions per year with an asset thats worth in the billions who has made money hand over fist for 49 years, but you have an issue with a player cashing in on his one time to truly cash in. Interesting.
Swyaman is a superstar, well at least everywhere else I read other than this place.
He's not a superstar yet. He's won nothing. Jennings was on Linus's back, he helped but wasn't the primary reason.
Just because you read something on the internet doesn't make it true.
Your entire opinion is based on reasonable "futures", not history.
Cart before the horse.
If you've actually read any of my posts, I want to pay him well, just for 4 years 7.5-8M. That is paying him on expectations.
It's gamble for both player and team. If he cracks or gets injured, it is his payday, and not a bad one.
Your argument of the cap going way up is a reasonable conjecture, but it is not etched in stone, especially with another potential strike within the next 3-5 years, which could stunt the cap growth, as greedy owners always make their nut back. Not to mention, no one expected the pandemic and look what that did to the economic for the NHL.
I want the player but both sides need to be reasonable.