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Pro athletes have more zeroes in their account than the normal public but their drive is still the same I've worked with many multi-millionaires and they still suffer from the 'what have you done for me lately mentality?' disease You look at all these guys with front loaded contracts and tell me how productive they'll be when their salary gets cut from $10MM to $1MM for the last few years of their contract and that's assuming they can even stay productive until that slide happens. They won't be happy they got that $20MM bonus in the beginning, they'll be Shane Doan's age wondering why they only make $1MM while the other guy is making $7MM Might have some hope with the older guys who've developed a work ethic on short term contracts but for a guy like Subban I'd rather go higher salary on 2 years to keep him in check. In a perfect world they'd all be on either performance based contracts or 2 way deals to keep them motivated Will never happen of course but there would be no Gomez's in that NHL personally I love to see other teams laying out the multi year deals cause it usually handcuffs them from icing a competitive team