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Originally Posted by TheoFleury
I'm worried that Gaudreau would deem the Tarasenko contract acceptable but the Flames are getting hung up on that 5th RFA year and are using it to try to get Johnny to come down.
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I hope that's exactly what's happening, because whether Johnny or anyone else likes it or not, he's not in the same boat as Tarasenko. That 5th RFA year has, or should have, a massive change on the AAV of any long term deal.
Just for conversation's sake, I'm going to assuming Tarasenko's 8x$7.5M deal is based on 4x$6M for the RFA years and 4x$9M for the UFA years. Therefore Johnny's equivalent to the Tarasenko deal at various terms is:
8 years: 5x$6M + 3x$9M = $7.125M AAV
7 years: 5x$6M + 2x$9M = $6.85M AAV
6 years: 5x$6M + 1x$9M = $6.5M AAV
People who throw around various terms while keeping the same AAV are clueless. They are extraordinarily related due to the fact that Johnny is an RFA for 5 years.