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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
What is more likely? That he becomes the next Cammalleri, Tanguay, or Kessel. Not slouches by any means, but are they guys who you want to commit a huge cap hit to in their prime?
He could be the next Hemsky, or Semin, or Ribeiro.
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Huge cap hit? Assuming a general 7M-7.5M for a long-term 8 year contract for Gaudreau, is that a huge cap-hit compared to those guys?
Tanguay had a 5.25M cap hit in 2006-2007. That was 12% of the cap.
12% of the cap today is 8.76M.
Cammalleri had a 6M cap hit in 2009-2010. That was 11% of the cap.
11% of the cap today is 8.03M.
Kessel had a 5.4M cap hit, as an RFA, in 2009-2010. That was 10% of the cap.
10% of the cap today is 7.3M.
Hemsky had a 4.1M cap hit, as an RFA, in 2006-2007. That was 9.5% of the cap.
9.5% of the cap today is 6.9M
Ribeiro had a 5M cap hit in 2008-2009. That was 9% of the cap.
9% of the cap today is 6.6M.
Hemsky had his breakout year, a single good year, before getting an RFA contract that works out to be roughly 7M today in terms of percentage of the cap. Gaudreau is even more proven than Hemsky was back then. For as much as we like to make fun of the Oilers, Hemsky's 6 year contract was never an albatross. It might have been one of the few good things going for them. Now, sure, there's more than just salary cap inflation so this is a bit rudimentary but a 7M contract is not 'huge'. Not when the best players are getting 10M+