Hockey super agent Pat Brisson has been in the game a long, long time. He’s seen a lot of contracts. Article content

He’s seen how the market for superstar players has evolved in the 20 years of the NHL’s salary cap era and those changes have been front of mind for him. Article content Article content

When Jaromir Jagr, just one of the many start-studded clients he’s had over the years, signed an eight-year, $88-million deal in 2001, it was easy to imagine that players would soon be signing even bigger deals, deals that would pay them, $12 million, $13 million per season, eventually even $20 million.

And then there was the hard reset of the 2004-05 lockout, when the players caved and the owners forced a recalibration of league revenues. Before the lockout, something like 70 per cent

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