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Old 09-08-2016, 10:33 PM   #694
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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary View Post
I sure hope this is Francis being Francis...

i love Gaudreau, but an 8 million ask at this point seems pretty inflated.
If Francis were wrong Johnny would probably be signed by now. I think he's on to something here.


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Originally Posted by Gaskal View Post
I'm with you on the UFA year value, but I think you're really selling short on the RFA years at only 5-5.5 per. Remember Monahan's contract structure:

RFA 1: 6.375
RFA 2: 6.375
RFA 3: 6.75
RFA 4: 6.75
UFA 1: 6.0
UFA 2: 6.125
UFA 3: 6.0

It's definitely peculiar that the UFA years are cheaper than RFA and I don't expect this phenomenon to happen with Johnny's contract, but Johnny's RFA years are not likely to come as cheap as you were hoping.
Just because they front loaded the cash as a quasi-bonus doesn't mean that reflects how they valued his RFA and UFA years. My guess is the valuation was roughly 4x$5.5M + 3x$7.5 = 7x$6.375M.
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