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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I wonder how this impacts the Vancouver Canucks's negotiation with RFA Bo Horvat. He is a few months older than Draisaitl, and has never come near to his offensive production, but Horvat also had a break-through career year and he was the leading scorer on his team. Unlike Draisaitl he was easily the Canucks most important player, and was the primary driver of their anemic offense.
Horvat will not get anything close to $8 m, but I would bet that this deal ensures he ends up with more than $6 m, and I think that will also be an overpayment.
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The McDavid contract changed the landscape. I'm just grateful that Monahan and Gaudreau had their deals done last summer. Something as simple as not burning that first year of Gaudreau's ELC could have led to his AAV jumping up another 1.25M or more.