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Originally Posted by Elliot Friedman
"I think both players are looking at these big deals that are happening now and they’re not bridge deals anymore. They are long-term deals. You look at Mark Scheifele. You look at Nathan MacKinnon. You look at some of the contracts that have been signed, those players believe they are in that area. In that number. I know if the Flames want to sign those players to long-term deals, the agents have asked for big numbers. So I think it’s still something that’s being grinded away between the two sides."
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According to this from Elliot Friedman it seems more likely that the Gaudreau and Monahan camps are the ones pushing for term, which also means a higher dollar value of the contracts. It makes sense to me that the Flames are more inclined to bridge them in hopes of providing more cap flexibility in the next two or three years; especially so since this is affecting both players, and in the light of comments about signing long-term deals from the players' side and not management's.