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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I would have Marner/Aho/Pointe as the top 3 RFA's and Rantanen is also in that tier as well. All being clearly ahead of Tkachuck who I think is closer to a guy like Meier than a guy like Aho. I would actually be willing to buy that Aho might be the most valuable based on him being a full time top line center who does not have the same level of offensive support the other players do and the role he plays.
As much as teams may gripe about that 5 year term, I think GM's love having 8.5 for 5 years on this player to use as a bench mark rather than Matthews 11 million dollar number over the same term.
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They will both be used as comparables, though the Leafs cant even use Aho in regards to Marner....because of obvious reasons.
And Tkachuk and Aho's PPG really arent that much different IIRC...3 pts a year or something along those lines.