If you say so...
"We lost out on the Brad Richards sweepstakes for two reasons," said Burke, who is believed to have offered the player a six-year, $42-million deal. "One, we didn't offer as much money as other teams and more importantly we didn't structure the contract like other teams did.
Richards signed a contract that looked like this:
$12 mil
$12 mil
$9 mil
$8.5 mil
$8.5 mil
$7 mil
$1 mil
$1 mil
$1 mil
Scratch those last 3 years and it looks a whole lot like $9.5 mil/year vs the leafs $7 mil/year
Yes i was wrong on the leafs amount but his NYR contract was still $2.5 mil a year higher lol