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Originally Posted by GGG
If you agree to pay him 14 million year 1 and have a deal at the time of signing to next year give him 20 million over the next 4 years you are doing it to get around the rule that the cap is averaged for the length of the deal hence it's cap circumvention.
If Gio doesn't have this guarantee it's not cap circumvention but as others why would he take the risk if he doesn't have something to ensure he gets the next deal.
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Could do a backroom deal where if his career is over he gets a "community ambassador" role for $20 MM over 4 years or something like that. Gio could make sure he gets the money by mentioning that if they don't pay it, every big RFA/UFA on the market gets a call from a former Flames captain explaining how they screwed him.
I agree it would work a lot better for the Flames if they could overpay gio for this year and maybe next year, and then have his cap hit reduce once he's ~35 and we need the $$ for the young guys. Maybe a 20 year, $22 MM deal with a handshake for a $18MM/3 year deal after? That works out to $40MM over 5 years with a much friendlier cap structure to the Flames.