Well, that depends on how you define "marquee" as well. Scott Stevens is a marquee player, but not in the same way as Brian Leetch, for example.
Roenick, btw, is not the only guy to say he would take less money.
The way you keep the money coming in is to keep the fans coming in, and the fans want to see competitive teams. The only way to make the league more competitive is to give the moeny to the guys who can compete and the lower-tier guys have to suck it up. After all, they play a game for a living.
Heck, I played minors for a season and I would have KILLED to sign with a big league team for peanuts compared to what the 3rd and 4th liners are getting now for being "defensive specialists". There are tons of guys that would tell you the same thing.
The problem is that because those guys in the middle are making far more than their value you can no longer pay the players that make you a contender. The money is in the playoffs, not so much the regular season.
Roenick didn't just say he'd take less money. He said that given the revenue of the league there's no reasonable reason for players to make more tha $5 mil.
But again, the salary of the guys in the middle is built around the salary of the guys at the top. In sports it's all by percentage, a top level guy makes 100% of the top end money, a guy that's not 100% as good as top level will make a percentage based roughly on his percentage, 50% as good gets around 50% as much. The only way to drop the earnings of the middle guys is to drop the earnings of the top.