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Originally Posted by guuar
Eichel and McDavid should both be expecting near the MAX. Same thing with Auston Matthews. Especially if all 3 are able to repeat or build upon the production they demonstrated this season.
It's reasonable that just about every team in the league would give up four 1st round picks for any of McDavid, Eichel or Matthews. You instantly acquire that elite #1 center. Four 1st round picks on average will give you one solid NHL player.
I fully expect McDavid to be asking for 14M and it's likely Eichel and Matthews could both be getting offers of 10-12M.
Teams may no like it but this is the cost that is going to be associated with franchise generational type players. It's not like Buffalo did anything special to get Eichel. They intentionally lost games. I think Reinhart gets a deal similar to Monahans. Either way That could easily be tacking on 16-18M just for those two contracts.
Fact is Conroy is best off being promoted as a GM in Calgary. He knows the owners, the organizations structure and the players respect him. It's an ideal situation with less pressure.
Would you want to be the GM that lost Jack Eichel to an offer sheet. Nothing to stop the NY Rangers from Offering Eichel a 7 year $98 million offer sheet.
Kopitar has a 14M cap hit and it wouldn't be surprising if either of these three kids were offered the same.
Buffalo is already up against the cap. They have around 12M coming off this year and need to re-sign Kulikov and that is going to be at least 5m to 6m of that free space right there.
Quite frankly the Buffalo GM job might end up being one of the worst in the NHL.
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Why do you think that? Monahan had two 60+ point seasons before he signed his deal... Reinhart hasn't broken 50.