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Originally Posted by Bourque's Twin
I can't see him getting more than 6 years of term.
4 would be most preferred
5 is realistic
6 is favourable to Giordano.
If it's 4 years, Gio is getting $8 million.
5 years, $7.5 million.
6 years, less than $7 million.
I think that's fair.
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I agree with your numbers and years, but do you think the flames should be aggressive in the short term by spreading money over 8 years? It obviously catches up to you eventually.
I don't know, but I am thinking about 5 years from now, and our core will be 25 to 27 years old, and some of them will be looking for big dollars with UFA coming up. Probably won't re-sign them all to big dollars and term into their mid thirties. You'd have to let a few of them go and replace them with young talent. 27 years old is probably the right age to trade away an asset for maximum prospects/picks.
So do you establish a 5 or 6 year "prime" window for this group? Should you maximize cap space during that window by spreading Gio's contract over 8 years?