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Originally Posted by curves2000

I am of the opinion of a few things here.

1) Treleving is a very very tough cookie with negotiating. Rumor has it during the Bouma contract deal that dragged on last summer the 2 sides were less than $20 000 a year on a longer term deal. That one is gonna bite a bit I think this summer.

Long term deals for aging players are controversial and usually don't end well. Too many teams are looking to get out of disaster contracts for longer term. Phanuef, Kessel, Chara, Richards, Dustin Brown heck even the Wideman deal didn't look great until Dennis took it upon himself to improve his play. His contract was signed under a team and management that was still pushing for the Cup. After we blew it up not sure how great of a contract it looked like then.

My opinion isn't what a lot of people like to hear but this is a player who might be traded before the contract comes due so it needs to be attractive to teams involved.

For me something along the lines of 4 years at $7 million if Gio is looking for the big pay day.

If he wants a little extra term and something like a LTC than it would be 6 years at 5.75.

From a starting point he would be starting the contract as a 33 year old. When the comparisons to players like Doughty, Weber, Subban etc come up people are forgetting the contracts with the above mentioned players were signed when they were 5-10 years younger than Gio.

One of the benefits of signing the player a year early is it gets it over and done with and it offers a lot of security for the player and his family. Factors such as injury, trade, change of ownership, coach, GM etc all can alter a teams and players plans.

I really think people are going to be very surprised with this deal and in a very good way too.

my $.02

Not even maybe. If Johnny Boychuk gets 6 million for 7 years Giordano gets at least 7 million for 6 years and that would be a hometown discount.