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Originally Posted by DJones
Bennett on a two year deal is dangerous.
No reason to have him and Tkachuk have to get raises at the same time.
Go as long as you can imo. He'll be worth it
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Signing Bennett to an 8 year deal as an RFA is comparable to the extensions that Scheifele (8 yrs, $6.125M AAV), Tarasenko (8 , $7.5M), Mackinnon (7, $6.3M), Monahan (7, $6.375M), and Forsberg (6, $6M) signed. I'm not sure Bennett is worth a $6M contract at this point.
Consider the closest to home comparable:
Monahan before his extension: 237 GP 80 G 79A 159P 38PIM Playoffs 11 GP 3 G 3A 6P 2 PIM
Bennett before his extension: 159 GP 31 G 32A 63P 112PIM Playoffs 15 GP 5G 1 A 6P 12 PIM
The Flames chose to burn year 1 of Bennett's ELC for the playoffs in 14-15, so the GP numbers don't quite line up of course. But Bennett's per game scoring stats are a fair bit lower than Monahan's.