Good article. Comparing all those contracts side by side adds great context.
Given the choice, would you rather have Ekblad or Tarasenko? I have said in the past that I think Tarasenko is overpaid. When you put him side by side with Ekblad, it seems pretty obvious. I think Ekblad's contract is warranted. For me, it's no contest who I would rather have. I think STL will regret that contract and I don't ever want to see the Flames in the position that they regret Johnny's contract.
For me, Johnny's contract should be a bit less than Ekblad's for 2 reasons: hardware (Calder), and age - Ekblad doing what he has done as a teenager is pretty impressive. So maybe 1 or 2 hundred K less for those reasons.
Then there is the issue of one less year of UFA. Haynes values that at $375k. That is probably about right. Let's say $250k to be conservative.
So let's take Ekblad's contract, and factor in those things. Call it $100k for the first two items, and $250k for the extra RFA year and you get:
8 x $7.15M (7.5 - 0.25 - 0.1)
To me, that sounds just about right, and sounds like about what Tarasenko should have gotten. It also puts him higher than Monahan and Forsberg but lower than Ekblad, which also sounds about right.
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