The way things are going it honestly seems like players (for forwards at least) that aren't signing an ELC or RFA bridge contract are going to have a cap hit on scale approximate to:
1 million : 10 pts
A guy like Brassard who looks like a safe bet to put up ~50 points a season for the next several years gets 5 million a year. Not saying it's an entirely reasonable amount, just that it seems to be the going rate in the current economic climate for a player in his UFA year and 4 of 5 years for this deal are UFA for Brassard.
It really drives home the importance of having your cap properly structured and managing the contract years for young blue chip players to take full advantage of their earlier prime years at a reasonable price.
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Last edited by Jables16; 07-27-2014 at 03:05 PM.
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