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Originally Posted by Five-hole
Not sure that Tarasenko is renowned for his 2-way play ... He's pretty lost in the D-zone.
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He's not ever gonna win a Selke but he's come a long way, started killing penalties this year for Hitch even.
Not like Johnny's terrible either in his own zone but I think that part of his game still has a long ways to go and is behind Tarasenko, subjective I guess but Tarasenko is a 220lb tank and that 70lbs makes a big difference in puck battles.
Not trying to crap on Johnny anyway, I love his game, I just don't see anything north of 7 mil as fair value. For me I'd put the 5 RFA years at 5-5.5 and his 2 or 3 UFA years at 8-8.5 max on the open market if that's what a proven consistent guy like Stamkos is getting. So I think the Flames are right in the ballpark on fair market value for a 7 or 8 year deal talking in that 6.5 per neighborhood.
Johnny forgoes some potential upside but the Flames trade some risk and security for that.