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Originally Posted by JerryUnderscore
These teams are using the Chicago model. Sign your best players to long-term high cap deals and find a rotating cast of $1M players to fill out the bottom of the roster.
I don't know that's the best way to go but it's probably better than having a $10M fourth line.
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But Chicago waited until they were actual proven elite players before giving them the massive contracts.
Nobody can take what Draisaitl did last year away from him, but given he played wing and not center for a good chunk of his production and that he only did it in one year to date they really jumped the shark in that negotiation and messed up the league.
The Bruins held firm on Pastrnak and other GMs have to do the same.
Be less worried about a guy potentially leaving in free agency after six years to keep the sanity in check on these lengthy deals at too high a cap hit.