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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Values change every season with the dynamic of a fluctuating cap. For example; no one can think that Tavares is actually fairly paid in comparison to Kane/Toews with an AAV of 5.5 vs 10.5 and Gaudreau put up bigger numbers than all three players in his second pro year! If he was on a better team you can easily argue that Stanley cups/playoff accolades would easily be in the cards. Kane/Toews only went up to 6.3 AAV in their second deals respectively, however, that was a long time ago. That 6.3 AAV is probably more like 8.0 AAV this year imho.
Considering the Flames essentially do not have a team without Guadreau/Monohan, I would wager that fair value is even further up the ladder as the players and agents are fully aware of this.
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1) by the time that Kane and Toews were Johnny's age they had a SC ring and 50 playoff games.
2) when Tavares finished off his 22 year season ( the same as Gaudreau) that was his 3rd year in a row where he was basically a ppg player.
3) the Flames with Monahan and Gaudreau performing at a level that we are talking 6M+ long term contracts finished 26th in the league (ie not far from essentially not having a team) ... a loss in the last meaningless game of the year would have put them tied for 3rd last in the league ... there is a heck of a lot riding on it was all the goalies fault theory