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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
That's a great strategy, but unless you're offering $10M a year (which they just can't) someone will offer 6 years and even at $10M
you can't match total guaranteed dollars. That's the trouble with UFA. Your strategy is irrelevant, the price is dictated by demand, not strategy or anything else. Demand will be very high for the only top pairing D available, who just happened to garner some Norris votes last year. You don't think the Oilers, Anaheim, Florida, Islanders, etc would offer at least 6 for 6 years (probably higher)? Remember that Orpik got 5.5 for 5 years ($27.5M in guaranteed money). Gio will want that at least.
However, how he plays this year will dictate a lot of how this unfolds.
You ALWAYS overpay for UFAs
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Yep, you are probably right, comes down to what the player wants.
If it was a choice between signing Giordano to 6 million a year for 5-6 years or losing him...I'd be on the phone making calls.
If he's valuable enough to command a 5+ year deal over 6 million, he's valuable enough to really jumpstart this rebuild.