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Originally Posted by New Era
Anyone that pays Tavares anything over $9M is setting their team up for disaster. I’m not certain I would even pay him that. People keep throwing around Connor McDavid money, but the guy is clearly no Connor McDavid and does not deserve that type of money. Tavares doesn’t have that ability, and doesn’t have the ability to change a game like the elite in the game. He’s a top end player, but he is not the game changer some people are making him out to be.
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Yeah, the Flames would be stupid to bring in an elite #1 center who's still south of 30. Haha. Tavares isn't a game changer? You have got to be kidding me.
No he's not as good as McDavid, that we can agree on. One signed an RFA contract with little options, the other will be signing a UFA contract with a ton of offers from just about every team. Naturally he's going get more than you'd ideally like to pay him. That still doesn't mean you walk away from it if you have the chance to land him.
He's a top 15 or so scorer in the league with guys like Anders Lee and Josh Bailey on his wings. Look at what happens to the wingers he's carried over the years when they become too expensive and some other dumbass teams pay up to get them, and find out after wards just how much of their numbers came from playing with an elite game changing center like Tavares.
There is always gotta be one person who goes against the grain that's for sure haha.