BillsFever
07-25-2003, 04:57 PM
Sold," he laughed.
Ryan Smyth didn't have to put in a call to agent Don Meehan when a reporter suggested $25 million would be plenty to make him an Edmonton Oiler for the next five seasons.
That's big money, but in today's NHL market, with players of less distinction making far more than the $2.9 million Smyth was paid last season, between $4 million and $5 million a year for the duration of such a pact seems about right, doesn't it?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/news/2003/07/24/oilers_smyth_slam/
Ryan Smyth didn't have to put in a call to agent Don Meehan when a reporter suggested $25 million would be plenty to make him an Edmonton Oiler for the next five seasons.
That's big money, but in today's NHL market, with players of less distinction making far more than the $2.9 million Smyth was paid last season, between $4 million and $5 million a year for the duration of such a pact seems about right, doesn't it?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/news/2003/07/24/oilers_smyth_slam/