I'll borrow one of Friedman's favorite sayings here.. you plan, God laughs. That's life.I am not arguing that those contracts were unprecedented or not, I am simply saying they had a plan and the variables changed for that plan in an unprecedented way.
We will never know if their plan would have worked had the cap kept going up as it was expected to because it didn't.
You're welcome to think that. I just wouldn't want my favorite team to be thinking "oh geez he's been the same player for 8 years, the 9th one is where he's finally gunna change" and then betting a shittonne of assets and cap space on it.Yeah? What if people believe that age, experience and a new environment could bring different results?
What if they pointed to Kadri and Hyman as the examples? No averaged half a point per playoff game as Leafs and around a point per playoff game post-Leafs.
Kadri.. you mean the same guy who got suspended again his first playoff with the Avs? The guy who should've been suspended the cup year for taking out Binnington? The guy who magically "figured it out" the year he was due a new contract and immediately regressed again?