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Originally Posted by jemjey
Managing a professional hockey team has a lot to do with managing cap in the present and future. If you're going to sign a player to a long-term deal you better worry about how that will affect your team in the latter stages of the contract.
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Only to a degree.
Any GM's number 1 priority is to win. Whether that be now or in a few years, all these guys have one single goal in front of them.
Treliving cant overly worry about what the landscape looks like 7 years down the road. Hell, its unlikely he will even have the job at that time, the way coaches and GM's are discarded these days.
So does Giordano being part of your team the next say 6 years make you closer to the ultimate goal? Obviously the majority would say yes. So now does that translate into offering an 8 year deal (all hypothetical) make it worth it for the first 6 and knowing the last couple are going to be a bad value? I would say absolutely it does.
"Just win baby" should be his mantra now and moving forward.
All that being said I still think he signs a 5 year 40 million dollar deal and all this "discussion" means bupkus.