Connor McDavid's contract dilemma: get paid his value or take a bullet for the team?

If McDavid signs for maximum contract, Oilers fans should celebrate. But he may yet pull a Crosby ….
Under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, it’s not possible for the Edmonton Oilers to overpay Connor McDavid.
McDavid could get the maximum amount of $14 million over 8 years and he’s such a unique player that he’d still be underpaid. A player who adds as much to winning as McDavid does would fetch a killing on an open market. It’s easy to imagine some tea