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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
No, I'm thinking that his starting position is a long term deal = highest paid defenseman on the roster. Bridge deal = between first and second guy since he's likely to be on the Oilers top pairing before the end of the deal.
So
Long term = 8 years 5.85
Bridge deal = 2 years 4.85
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8 years is going to cost more than that due to the number of UFA years involved, and will obviously require some salary to move out. Bridge will have to be less because there simply isn't enough cap space there. Maybe 1 year @ 3.5M (the problem being that the Oilers can't demonstrate with certainty that Sekara won't return before the end of the year).
In the end, some salary will have to move out for any long-term deal to be signed, unless they bridge Nurse long enough for cap increases to get them out of cap hell. The problem, however, is that I'm sure he won't be signing for any more than 1 year if the deal is less than 4M.