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Originally Posted by The Fonz
We just signed 22yo franchise Dman, Dougie Hamilton, to a 6yr deal worth 5.75M per year (8% of today's cap).
In the summer of 2008, we signed 23yo "franchise Dman", Dion Phaneuf, to a 6yr deal worth 6.5M per year (11.5% of the 2008/09 cap).
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To add some context... if we were to devote the same amount of cap space to Hamilton as we did to Phaneuf in 2008, we'd have signed Hamilton to a 6yr deal worth 8.25M annually.