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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
For the sake of argument, here are some comparative numbers against the Oilers' contracts.
Hall and Eberle signed their deals for the 2013/14 season. Comparing the cap against that season, $6M then equates to $6.81M now.
So Monahan's deal is cheaper than Hall's.
Eberle's deal is only 6 years, so Monahan's deal is substantially better value than Eberle's (ignoring the fact that Eberle is a 2nd rate player).
RNH's deal started the next season. So his deal equates to $6.35M today.
tl;dr
Monahan deal is roughly equal cost to RNH.
Monahan deal cheaper than Hall's
Monahan deal much cheaper than Eberle's
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Are you trying to highlight the risks?
When Eberle signed is 6x6 he was coming off his 21 year old season (same season Monahan just finished) and he had more 7 more goals 34 to Monahan's 27, 9 more pts 76 to 67 in 3 less games.... He was a +4 to Monahan's -6 (both on crappy +/- teams) . His best season, and very likely his career season happened when he was 21.
Eberle had a solid reputation as a clutch player scoring big goals.
His future at 21 was every bit as bright as Monahan's is today.
There would be no argument that the Oliers would have been far better off not extending him and then signing him to a 2x3 M show me deal the next summer. Eberle never earned close to his 6 M in the 3 out of the 4 RFA years he has burned so far and the Oilers have him for another RFA year plus 2 UFA years at 6M. They overpaid him for his 4 RFA years by 3M / season and will overpay him by 2M for his 2 UFA years.
He and RHN are the real life examples of not giving 21 year olds 6M deals for their RFA years.