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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I have been much more amenable to the possibility of a three-year deal as this has dragged on. In the event of a potential arbitration dispute I suspect the team's best course of action would be to ensure that they then sign him before it gets to that point. In three years it is likely that Gaudreau is already an established elite-level forward, so I would think it easier for the club to justify a huge extension.
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Disagree. The point when the team is going to need the cap space is three years down the road. Right now we have bad money coming off the books in Stajan, Wideman, Bollig and Smid very soon so we can deal with the 7-8M AAV.
Waiting on that and possibly ending up having to pay Johnny 10M per would be disastrous when we are needing to re-up the likes of Tkachuk, Bennett and so on.