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Originally Posted by GGG
How do you get there in terms of value. His RFA years are worth 6 million per or so. Then add 10mil per for UFA years and you get 7.14 for 7 years and 7.5 for 8 years. How do people get above 7.5 million for the contract.
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Is a PPG player worth 6 million? Let's be honest now, it's worth more. Unfortunately it seems that the RFA status is clouding peoples judgements, and ultimately doing a similar mistake that the Canadians did with Subban.
Gaudreau is worth more than 6 million at the moment as a PPG regardless of if people want to argue his road productivity. We certainly are not getting Gaudreau on a bridge at 6 million.
Gaudreau's direct comparable is Tarasenko, which put's Gaudreau's negotiations at 7.5 million just to start at minimum. It is hard to argue that Tarasenko is a much better player, when Gaudreau got more points last year and is a year younger. At the very worst, they are comparable.
I also find it odd that when Tarasenko got signed, people here thought it was a steal and hoping for Monahan / Gaudreau to get something similar. And this was before Gaudreau had anywhere close to 78 points. Some were even saying to get Monahan signed to a similar deal at 7.5 million AAV.
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...arasenko+signs
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
That's a steal of a deal for the Blues.
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Originally Posted by Canada 02
I'd expect similar for Monahan and Gaudreau next summer
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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Good AAV for a player like Tarasenko. As always, 8 years is a long time to invest in any player, even if they are as good as Tarasenko. Anything past 5 years is a gamble IMO.
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Let's not kid ourselves. If Gaudreau was signed to 8 year 7.5 million AAV today people here would be ecstatic.