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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Leon will probably get a half million more then Monahan, just simply because this season will probably eclipse any of the point totals that Monhahan has had.
He's at 47 points now right, with about 30 games left.
If you think that they're going to get McDavid signed for a long term deal that eats into his UFA years for 10.5 I think your wrong. His valuation in terms of his value to the Oilers and his production and him literally carry that team puts him in a firm drivers seat. I'm not expecting him to get a Kane or Toews valuation, but that's going to probably be where his agent starts, and if the Oilers start at 10 then expect to meet in the middle at 12.
We're dealing with a generational player here, one who's probably going to add huge dollars to the Oilers and the NHL's bottom line, when you put that on one side of the balance sheet, and then on the other the whole, oh golly gee batman I'll take less to build the team, that doesn't mean that he's taking a million or two million less, it means that maybe he takes a couple of hundred thousand less. Also McDavid will be under tremendous pressure by the PA and his agent will be under pressure by the PA to be the poster boy of setting the next generation of contract values.
I've said in my post that Nurse will probably get 3 million, which we see a lot of third pairing defense men get, but I agree if he signs longer term its 4 million. 2 million isn't going to happen unless its a 1 year deal.
but you and I are quibbling over 1 or 2 million over what could be a 20+ million dollar jump in payroll.
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I disagree with the PA pressure due to escrow, but thats another matter.
McDavid'd current cap hit is essentially 3.8 million as he will hit all his bonus's this and next year one would imagine. So any raise should really be counted from that.
In any case this will likely be decided in 6 or 7 months so we shall see then.