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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Obviously there are other options in between these three, but if these were your options which would you pick?
1) 6.75 million dollars x 3 Years - Keep Term Low And Take Advantage of Tkachuk's ELC, and Bennett/Ferland's bridge deals and not lock down any real long term consequence. Allow Backlund to sign a long term deal elsewhere if Bennett or Jankowski surpass him by then.
2) 5.75 million dollars x 5 Years - In many ways considered to be the "front-runner" deal - take on some term but have the AAV "solid".
3) 4.4 million dollars x 8 Years - Basically a retirement contract, with a relatively low AAV, banking on Backlund being an effective top 9 forward at age 36. Would basically be our "Hossa" deal so to speak.
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From the Flames perspective, the best deal is #3 by far, it would be a dream come true if he agreed to that.
#2 is the only one that Backlund could conceivably accept, although I expect it's more likely he'd want at least 6 years, $6M AAV.