Essentially, they knew McJesus was going to get paid, but how do you pay him a ton of money and not piss off the fanbase who expected a $9.7M contract a year ago
1) Leak a huge dollar contract ($13.25M/8 years) - check
2) Leak rumblings McJesus decided to leave money on the table - check
Then boom, official number comes in under original leak, McJesus is heralded as a great leader, and also gives some control with Draisaitl as they can clamor that McJesus left money on the table and so should you.
When you have bloated contracts for Russell, RNH, and Lucic, that $750k savings is not much in my opinion.
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