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Originally Posted by YoungGuns
Tell me what a guy who finishes top 10 in NHL SCORING TWICE in 3 seasons would sign for after that.
I'm very curious to hear your response. I hope you come up with a good one that I don't shred to pieces.
What does a guy who hit a point per game in his sophomore season get? A season where your numbers should drop? And after that his worst is a 0.81 PPG.
How about a guy who hit 0.83PPG in his rookie year and the last half of last year was a top 3 scorer in the NHL
How about a guy who finished with 80 points in 75 games before last year?
Probably all a one off right.
Please tell me how that would get you less than 6.
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Hall's contract is good (and so is RNH's) but it won't matter because they'll be expired before the Oilers ever get their crap together. Now it looks like it would've been better to bridge them because now they're going to have to re-sign them as UFAs just as Connor starts hitting his prime. Not that management could've foreseen that, but it is a risk you run when you start giving out longer/more expensive contracts then you have to and you have a bad team that won't contend for years and years. it's hilarious that they apparently thought the savings from those 6x6 deals would be used to help build a contender over that period. Instead they spend to the cap every year while being terrible. Who really cares if Hall is getting 0m, 2m, 4m, 6m or 8m if the team is being paid 70m but is really worth 30m?
In an alternate universe, Hall and RNH sign 2 year bridge deals and are now coming in to negotiate their 7/8 year deals. I doubt either player gets more than 7m-8m AAV over 8 years if they are RFA next summer. Instead, the Oilers are going to have to re-sign them at age 27, right in their prime as UFAs. They'll both easily get 9m+ on their next deals while all the 'savings' on their previous deals will be to the benefit of terrible teams in the past that couldn't take advantage of those savings anyway.