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Old 09-18-2016, 11:32 PM   #1865
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Originally Posted by jayswin View Post
Wow, I think you're off base here. There's no way a seven or eight year deal is coming in under $7mil. If we see $7-7.5 AAV I'd be very happy for the Flames side, that would be a huge win for the Flames organization.

We'll likely see them settle in the $7.5-$7.75 range, imo. Anything over that and it starts to get a little tight for building a contender, but I'd still feel good that we ever got Johnny in the first place and that he turned into a superstar.

This contract is the type of problem you want to see your team going through, rather than the more common "how do we acquire/draft a star like that?".
Why not? What makes Gaudreau worth 700k-1.2M more than Nathan MacKinnon? Jersey sales?

Steven Stamkos got $7.5 per after a 51 goal 95 point season at age 20 and a 45 goal 91 point season the year after that. You really want to give Johnny Gaudreau that kind of money after one year where he was ALMOST PPG?
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