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Originally Posted by MacDaddy77
Yea because signing a fully guaranteed contract for $106MM for the next 8 years is leaving money on the table!
He's still only going to be 29 when this contract expires and can re-negotiate a new contract extension at 27/28. probably guaranteeing another $75MM+
Also, you have to remember this is $13.25 Million in USD That's around $17.3MM CDN right now
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Not that he's leaving money per se, but in theory, he could of put more pressure on the oilers by signing whatever will take him to UFA quickest with this amount, and get a raise even sooner, thus (hopefully) creating more cap crunch at that time