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

[GeeoffBrown]

This is a statistic that will probably go the other direction sooner than later

 

[Whalers Fan]

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"

...and back in the 1950's it was "no team has won a Cup with a player making more than $25,000".

 

[Coffey]

...and back in the 1950's it was "no team has won a Cup with a player making more than $25,000".

Exactly.

 

[Frank Drebin]

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

Really

 

[Wats]

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

Reminds me of the no team has won the cup with a 9+M goalie and then we got one winning or making the finals like every year.

 

[CanadienShark]

I love how goalposts are shifting every year. Recently it was "no one can win with a $10m player" and suddenly it's been done.

 

[KingsFan7824]

What this basically means is that you can't really criticize contracts. A lot of things have to go your way to win the Cup anyway, and production out of any cap hit is just one variable. GMs are there to acquire talent, and have to work with what the market is. If a bad contract has to take 5 years to pay off, so be it.

Looking forward to no crying or laughing over any contracts handed out this summer. We live in a world where a nobody waiver wire pickup can end up as the best defenseman on a team during a Cup run. A team also with a $10m cap hit/35 year old goalie.

Take any rules of roster building, and put them to the side. The reality seems to tend more toward, GMs are throwing whatever they can at the wall to see if it sticks. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesnt.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Pretty much every team will have a player making 10+ mil in a couple years.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Arbitrary filter

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Core 4 under 40M and you’re in good shape

 

[DJB]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805753860310376864

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

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

Winning each game 7-6 lol

 

[WATTAGE4451]

Oilers nearly won a cup while paying 9.25 mil per to their 5th best defenseman. Paying an actual elite player 10 million i dont think is actually a hinderance.

 

[Mike C]

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

You play Stray O Matic computer hockey too???