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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Serious comment here away from the whole troll thing going on:
It's pretty widely accepted that Tarasenko is a comparable, but (at 7 years) they bought 3 years of UFA with Tarasenko. With Johnny at 7, they'd only be buying 2, correct?
That suggests to me that if the deal is 7 years, we should be looking at closer to 7 million (or below), but 7.5 would make sense at 8 (since we'd be buying the same amount of years that the Blues bought with Tarasenko.
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That's absolutely true, and Tarasenko's deal was 8 years. So he got 4 RFA + 4 UFA vs 5 RFA + 3 UFA for Johnny. That to me is the biggest thing in Calgary's corner.
Here is how I look at it:
Inflation at 5.5%: +410k
One less year of UFA: -400k
Adjustment for superior performance to date in career: Anywhere from 250k - 500k
Nets out to just under 7.75M to 8M on an 8 year deal.