No Team has won the Stanley Cup with a player on the Roster making more than 10+ mil AAV in the lineup.

[UrbanImpact]

10mil seems to be the marker.

Highest AAV when they won the cup:

Eichel 10 mil
Barkov 10 mil
Bobrovsky 10 mil

Kuch 9.5mil
Malkin 9.5 mil
Vasy 9.5 mil
Stone 9.5 mil

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[AD1066]

10mil seems to be the marker.

Highest AAV when they won the cup:

Eichel 10 mil
Barkov 10 mil
Bobrovsky 10 mil

Kuch 9.5mil
Malkin 9.5 mil
Vasy 9.5 mil
Stone 9.5 mil

Would be curious to see this as % of the cap for each year. Is Malkin the highest, being the least recent?

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Would be curious to see this as % of the cap for each year. Is Malkin the highest, being the least recent?

Yeah, Malkin would be equivalent to ~$12.2M cap hit this year.

 

[MadLuke]

How many over $10M team season exist ?

many cups were won with players making an higher percentage of the cap than that, which I imagine is the more relevant metric here.

10.0 of 92 millions cap space that like 6.2 millions in 2009 when the penguins won the cup when Crosby must have been $8.7m by then.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

this stat means next to nothing, there's only so many players making over 10 and that number is going to rise
that could have easily gone the other way last night too

 

[OysterForever]

this stat means next to nothing, there's only so many players making over 10 and that number is going to rise
that could have easily gone the other way last night too

Yeah but it didnt go the other way which just proves the point

 

[UED]

We the Habs will take McDavid off your hands since he's the reason you can't win a cup. Obviously we can't win either with someone making over 10M but we don't need any more cups, we need a superstar.

 

[Coffey]

Can't wait for this thread in a few years

"No team has won the Stanely Cup with a player on their roster making more than 14M aav"

 

[Section 104]

A few days ago it was “you can’t win a Stanley Cup with a goalie making a large chunk of the salary cap”.

 

[NVious]

Gonna be crazy when Toronto wins with Matthews at 13, Willie at 11 and Connor at 14.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Can't wait for this thread in a few years

"No team has won the Stanely Cup with a player on their roster making more than 14M aav"

Great sentiment, but I think we can get Reinhart signed for under $14m

 

[Daishi]

Gonna be crazy when Toronto wins with Matthews at 13, Willie at 11 and Connor at 14.

Toronto hasn't sniffed even the conference finals in 20+ years. Keep day dreaming kid.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Yeah but it didnt go the other way which just proves the point

no it really doesn, even the whole no team can win with a 10m player only didnt happen sooner because there just arent that many 10m players in the league. it should have never been a thing. we currently only have 10 players making more than 10m and only one team wins every year. the overall number of players making over 10m is going to increase soon, teams will win with one of these players. there's no perfect way to build a team. a team with zero defense can even win by getting hot at the right time.
before you know it your going to making a thread about how no team can win a 11m player, then 11.5m player then 12m
it doesnt matter how much one of these players make.

Toronto hasn't sniffed even the conference finals in 20+ years. Keep day dreaming kid.

23 years I think

 

[willy702]

So are you saying if the Oilers had just been smart and offloaded that albatross contract McJesus has at the TDL they would have a better chance at winning the Cup?

 

[bobholly39]

Gonna be crazy when Toronto wins with Matthews at 13, Willie at 11 and Connor at 14.

Don't forget Marner at 16

 

[cliffclaven]

Toews and Kane were both making $10.5M when they won in 2015

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Florida though balanced has some pretty hefty contracts. No often you see a team win the cup with a 10M dollar goalie.

Bob - $10M
Barkov - $10M
Tkachuk - $9.5M

If Reinhart re-signs, rumour is he is in the $10-11M range.

 

[jonlin]

If Reinhart re-signs, rumour is he is in the $10-11M range.

I really doubt he`ll get more than Barkov in Florida. Somewhere else he might.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Toews and Kane were both making $10.5M when they won in 2015

No their contracts started in 15-16

 

[centipede2233]

Toews and Kane were both making $10.5M when they won in 2015

Wrong. They were both on their final year at 6.5 mil aav in 2014/15 season

 

[Dr Salt]

Toews and Kane were both making $10.5M when they won in 2015

Kicked in the next year

 

[JoVel]

Would Oilers have won if Barkov's cap hit was $10,000,001 ?

 

[Nogatco Rd]

10mil seems to be the marker.

Highest AAV when they won the cup:

Eichel 10 mil
Barkov 10 mil
Bobrovsky 10 mil

Kuch 9.5mil
Malkin 9.5 mil
Vasy 9.5 mil
Stone 9.5 mil

This is why Mitch took 10.093

 

[RunItBackAgain]

This is why Mitch took 10.093

It's 10.903

 

[JianYang]

It's just a stat with no meaning really. I think the point you are trying to make is that guys who eat too much cap won't be on winning teams but if we want to compare apples to apples, we should look at cap hit as a percentage of the overall salary cap for the given year.

Even that is an imprecise measure though because I suspect that teams gave players larger contracts earlier in the cap era fully expecting significant year over year salary cap increases, which was not a stretch given that the cap era began with a modest 39 million dollar limit.