[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

There are two problems with an argument like this.

1) You have made a list, with the implication that all of the players in the list have similar, or relatively equal value. Tarasenko may not be good value. Tavares is, because he has a nice low cap hit. Some of those players have cap hits under $5M. They are not comparables to Tarasenko's $7.5M and certainly do nothing to prove that overpaying Gaudreau would be okay.

2) Your list conveniently ignores other 2nd contracts that aren't good value. Contracts like Brodin, Eberle, RNH and others.

I'll say it again: ALL overpayments will contribute to cap problems. Being a 2nd contract, and a player being 23 years old, doesn't magically exempt them from that.

Also, for the love of god, let the Brouwer thing go already. You are going full Ricardodw on this. And you never go full Ricardodw.

So what should we do?