BY: John Grigg

With the salary cap being such an important player in the way teams are managed and talent is paid, it’s hard to believe some of the ludicrously long contracts doled out in recent years. GMs must be kicking themselves they didn’t have in their negotiations whatever Mike Gillis had in his to get the Sedins to agree to five-year deals at a reasonable $6.1 million each.

Vinny Lecavalier, Johan Franzen and Mike Richards are signed through 2020, Alex Ovechkin, Henrik Zetterberg, Rick DiPietro (more on the Islanders later) and Marian Hossa through 2021. Craziness.

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