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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
Why? $8.42M isn't the worst number considering rumours were Carolina was at $7.5M and Aho wanted at $9.5M. Montreal could have pushed above $9M AAV to add other pressure into them not matching.
Maybe they should have leaked that they wouldn't match a 7 year deal then.
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Why? Aho didn’t want a 7 year term.
Carolina was at $7.5M on an 8 year term.
Aho wanted 9.5M on a 5 year term. To extent that Carolina would go short term, they would have wanted to go quite a bit less, likely about $6M.
That’s a huge difference.
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