The money is pretty much what I expected. The term -I thought he'd not give up many, if any, UFA years. And not just because he wants even more as a UFA (frankly, I don't think the money changes much for him as a UFA versus RFA). I thought it would be shorter to some degree to get out of Edmonton (which I don't think is as big a factor despite my disdain for all things Edmonton). But mostly I thought it would be shorter to lessen the effect a new CBA has on existing contracts (in at least one instance a new CBA rolled back wages on existing contracts). Maybe that's not the prediction for a new CBA.
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