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Originally Posted by Bingo
Plus it doesn't take much to take a Flames stance on salary and apply a Gio cap when there wasn't one.
The Flames may think he should be paid between 6.5 and 6.75 based on math, not based on Giordano being the highest paid player as a rule.
As I've said numerous times my starting point was always 5.5x5 + 8.5x3 for $6.6 and I certainly wasn't aiming to be under Giordano.
The 5 years of RFA drag the deal down, not a captain that signed a UFA deal.
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8.5 for UFA years that would occur 6 years from now seems extremely low considering what we just saw from Stamkos, Benn, Kane, Toews contracts.
With that breakout, he'd still be only getting 7M over 8 years with only 4 RFA years, which would effectively be 10% less than Tarasenko's inflation adjusted AAV, despite Gaudreau putting up much better offensive numbers.