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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
I'm not sure how Subban is the last comparable when you have Ryan Johansen. Johansen held out until October 6, 2014. He signed a 3 year contract, averaging 4M a year. He's still an RFA when it ends. He signed that deal as a 22 year old coming off 33 goals and 63 points. The year before he had 12 points. He was far less proven then Gaudreau, and still made 4M a year.
Jeff Carter averaged 5M a year with his 3 year bridge signed years ago. He had a career high 53 points.
Mrazek, his first year starting, got a contract worth 4M as a RFA.
Kulikov signed for 4.33M a year.
Lucic made 4.1M in his bridge contract.
Semin made 4.6M with his 'second bridge contract'.
Subban's contract is an outlier. I certainly agree that the value for a bridge contract would probably be less than what many expect, it would not be in the 3M range.
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All of those contracts are longer than 2 years. If you sign a 3 or 4 year bridge, the AAV will be higher.
But if you follow the logic of the other post I just made, a 3-year bridge + 8 years, will get you to a similar place as 8 yearrs then 3 years of UFA.
There is no magic path to higher career earnings. It ends up about the same no matter hw you chop up the contracts (assuming that each contract is roughly fair value)