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Originally Posted by OilerFanInCalgary
Good summary. Oiler's certainly will be up against a cap crunch. Lucic definitely an anchor that won't be moveable. Although you forgot Mark Fayne at 3.6m AAV who comes off the books after next season. I honestly doubt McDavid will demand 12m AAV, I think 10m max. There is a long precedent for players taking discounts to keep the team competitive. if he demands 12m AAV, the Oilers are really gonna feel the pain.
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Personally if he asks for 12 million dollars he is giving the Oilers a discount. Especially considering that he is not only the face of the Oilers but the face of the NHL.
If you look at the top paid players
you've now got guys like Kopitar Kane and toews with 10.5 million dollar cap hits, but earning salaries far in excess of 12 million bucks a year.
There's no way that McDavid his agent and the NHL PA are in effect going to allow a 2 to 4 million dollar hair cut.
If the Oilers want to sign McDavid to a max length contract a significant number of years are going to have a salary not cap hit in excess of 12 to 14 million bucks and it will probably average to 12
and your right, the Oilers will lose Fayne's 3.6.
but the one thing thats apparent is going forward for the next few years the Oiler's won't be players in the free agent market, and on top of that will probably have to lose talent from what is their current lineup. Logic tells us that they will have to replace those players with low cost alternatives which means that the Oilers talent trajectory is down and not up.