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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
He'll be 33 to start the last year of his contract. Injuries are always an issue with long-term contracts but he hasn't missed a game in 5 years.
I still think there's a disconnect where people are erroneously comparing contracts between the old contracts and the ones signed after cap-circumvention was prevented. Bobby Ryan, who scored 23 and 18 goals the last 2 years and can't spell intensity, is going to be making 7M+ for the next 7 years. Their contracts end the same year, and Bobby Ryan is older than Kessel.
10M will be the norm for the elite talents in their primes. 80% for the second tier players is reasonable. Given his goal scoring ability, I don't think it's wrong to put Kessel in that second tier.
The main reason I wouldn't want Kessel is the assets it would require to get him. He's not going to be given away free and the names that it would require are not names I think should be moved.
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Yeah but let's save that space for the elite talents that we have percolating, not some selfish 27 year old that will be an albatross contract by the time the kids are ready to contend.