My latest thought would be to sign Brodie to a 5 or 6 year contract now and front load it and try to keep the cap hit under 5.
Say a 6 yr 27 mil contract but pay him 6,6,6,3,3,3 or whatever to be cap compliant. This uses our open budget (owners say their a cap willing team) the next 3 years and if he doesnt maintain his level of play to justify his cap hit you can trade him to an internal budget team as he will always be at least a 3 mil defensemen.
If he has 1 more good season we wont get him less than 5.5. So lets risk the owners money now to have more cap space in the future
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