Connor McDavid's rich new pact is the NHL's highest-value contract, analytics author Rob Vollman asserts

When the salary cap was introduced following the Lost Season of 2004-05, it brought an entirely new level of complexity to the already-complicated job of managing a National Hockey League team. Since then, the cap has proven to be a major player in the NHL’s Parity Era, along with other confounding factors like the Bettman Point and the not-coincidental extension of the Dead Puck brand of hockey.
While the groundbreaking Collective Bargaining Agreement lowered the age of unrestricted free