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Originally Posted by flameswin
I didn't really mean THE franchise defenseman, just A franchise defenseman, meaning his ceiling (and he hasn't really shown anything that suggests he's going to fall off) is that of a franchise, number 1 D-man.
And I certainly think he's shown enough already to put significant eggs in his basket. I'm not talking league max type of stuff here, I'm talking paying him comparable to a lot of other number one pairing D-man on CURRENT contracts.
This difference being that if we're willing to suck up a couple of years at $6.9mil now, we're likely looking at a really low comparative cap hit in the last six years.
When you've got guys like Subban getting $9mil/yr already, I'm looking ahead to where the NHL is headed with contracts and I'm laughing all the way to the bank at signing Hamilton to that cap hit for as long as I can.
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That's what we thought about Phaneuf. And Bouwmeester.