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Originally Posted by dino7c
to be fair I may be lumping you in with the MANY Oiler fans online and IRL who are in total denial about incoming cap issues
"McDavid is signing for 9.7x8 because Drai is his best friend" types
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This kind of rhetoric scares me, as I want the message to be "if the best player in the game doesn't deserve league max, then who does?".
In my mind $9.7 talk pushes the deal closer to $12m than to $14m. Also a 5yr deal is the goal. Ideally the extension talk gets drawn out into the season as well, with "plenty of time" talk, and he misses camp next year.