McDavid extends for 2 years at $12.5m per year

[rickshaw]

2 hours ago, Eleven said:

Anyone could have signed the best hockey player in the world for 12.5M for the best remaining years in his career when Kaprizov is getting 17M?  I always knew you get the "better stuff" in BC.

Connor wants to stay. He’s the one who directed this contract and him only. Bowman is the recipient. CM is giving him two years extra to get them over the hump. If he doesn’t do it, McDavid is so gone after this extension. I don’t think this is a big wow on the GM. If CM wanted to be highest paid player, he’d be that. He’s driving this to help them get better. 

[ska-T Palmtown]

54 minutes ago, shrader said:

I’d love to know how much the best player on the face of the earth makes in endorsements. If there’s anyone who can afford to leave money in the table, it’s that guy. The only real shocker there is that he just signed on to be the second highest paid player on that team. 

 

32 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

I wonder if he makes more or less than Matthews, with Matthews probably getting a lot more 'local money' being in Toronto vs Edmonton...with Toronto's metro population and wealth/GDP being...maybe 4 or 5 times what Edmonton is?

Considering I read the average american (and probably canadians are close?) will earn somewhere around $1.6M for their entire working career ... i think they can ALL "afford" to leave money on the table.

It would be even more interesting to see how the top earners from each sport compare to each other. Is it proportional to league average salaries? Proportional to TV contracts? Totally unrelated?

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1 hour ago, Eleven said:

Also, I note that the posters here that are objecting to this deal are from provinces near to Alberta.  Well, Manitoba is somewhat near.  I guess Saskatchewan is somewhat in the way, but really, when is the last time anyone thought about Saskatchewan?

Why, just the other day 😁

 

[LTS]

I'll listen to what McDavid has to say about it.

In the end he signed the deal and that's all that matters. There are certainly some concepts that cannot be applied any longer.

There's no way to say McDavid's salary prevented building a winning team.  He wants to win.  I think he only has to look at the Panthers (who he has seen the past two finals) to understand that perhaps having the highest paid player in hockey is not the way to for a team to win a Stanley Cup.

He's letting the Oilers go get resources and if they don't, he can demand the trade or wait it out.

He's going to collect in 3 years.. one way another. 

[shrader]

56 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

I wonder if he makes more or less than Matthews, with Matthews probably getting a lot more 'local money' being in Toronto vs Edmonton...with Toronto's metro population and wealth/GDP being...maybe 4 or 5 times what Edmonton is?

McDavid will get all the national stuff though, especially since he’s a Canadian. I wonder how much money the porn stache has cost Matthews. 

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1 hour ago, shrader said:

I’d love to know how much the best player on the face of the earth makes in endorsements. If there’s anyone who can afford to leave money in the table, it’s that guy. The only real shocker there is that he just signed on to be the second highest paid player on that team. 

We should ask Josh? 

 

Im thinking he's gotta be raking it in with enforcement deals, as he seems to appear in approx 10% of the TV commercials that I'm seeing of late? 

[7+6=13]

Shayna Goldman called this almost exactly Friday on WGR.  

[mjd1001]

8 minutes ago, shrader said:

McDavid will get all the national stuff though, especially since he’s a Canadian. I wonder how much money the porn stache has cost Matthews. 

A quick search with results from sportrac claims McDavid makes/made $6m per year in endorsements, Matthews $5m

 

[mjd1001]

2 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

A quick search with results from sportrac claims McDavid makes/made $6m per year in endorsements, Matthews $5m

 

To show the difference between sports....

 

[ska-T Palmtown]

1 minute ago, mjd1001 said:

A quick search with results from sportrac claims McDavid makes/made $6m per year in endorsements, Matthews $5m

 

I put this together in US$ (sorry, local currency here):

I found the % of league average to be interesting. Note that Curry's number includes some of him owning a stake in some company.

[shrader]

52 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

To show the difference between sports....

 

And I wonder how much of that is under the table from the teams. 

[French Collection]

2 hours ago, That Aud Smell said:

Right. But when he signed that deal, what was its share of the team's total cap?

Not sure but he was probably around 10% for a good chunk of that first big deal.

Interesting that Crosby has never been the highest paid player in any year of his career. Leaving a bit on the table helps them win 3 Cups imo.

[French Collection]

2 hours ago, Thorny said:

I’d imagine Edmonton retreats right back into the igloo if McDavid escapes them - the difference between buffalo and Edmonton is merely the bounce of those balls 

West Edmonton mall can accommodate hundreds of palm trees.

[French Collection]

2 hours ago, Eleven said:

Also, I note that the posters here that are objecting to this deal are from provinces near to Alberta.  Well, Manitoba is somewhat near.  I guess Saskatchewan is somewhat in the way, but really, when is the last time anyone thought about Saskatchewan?

Quite often, one of the largest holdings of my retirement fund is potash producer Nutrien, their mining assets are primarily in Saskatchewan.