The Colorado Avalanche have one of the best, if not the best, players in the NHL right now (that’s a debate that fans can go on and on with forever) in Nathan MacKinnon. They signed MacKinnon to an extension several years ago with an AAV of $12.6 million. With today’s breaking news of Kirill Kaprizov signing a $17 million deal with the Minnesota Wild, MacKinnon’s deal looks pretty sweet.
I’ve always been of the mindset that, in hockey, it is best not to pay a ton of players north of $10 million. That’s just not a great way of building a winning team.