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Team camaraderie, number one, when you're relying on two guys that heavily, and then you just can't last that long in a playoff series, playing guys 30 minutes and expecting them to do everything.

The size of those two compared to the size of the two we're talking about.

I'm just going to look for counterpoints here.

Next one up, and I'm telling you, I talk about the team and the chemistry and how you build a team, and we've been through it with Sidney Crosby.

If I make less, then everybody's got to make less if you want to win.

Matthew Kachuk went down to Florida, did the same thing.

If you want to win, Barkov, you want to make less, everybody's got to make less.

During the season, Kaprizov goes and signs for $17 million.

Nobody needs to be making $17 million.

And it just doesn't feel right in a team.

If some guy's making $750, I got this guy making $17 million, and then he's fraudulent for $17 million, even though we've never seen someone make that much.

One shot in Game 4, zero shots in Game 5, puck on his stick to win the game in overtime, passes it off.

That is not a $17 million player.

Yeah, nobody.

You got Sidney Crosby making $8.7 million.

He's the perfect hockey player.

That is the argument.

McDavid even just took less, and he's the most skilled hockey player.

So it just ruins the balance of a team.

It's all about a team.