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Originally Posted by The Fonz
I think the Gio-cap is real, but I don't understand why it's even relevant anymore. It wouldn't have anything to do with AAV - that wouldn't make sense. It would be tied to annual salary while Giordano is on this team, which is 3 more years @ 6.75M, and so not a hindrance whatsoever to signing Tkachuk to an 8.5M AAV deal.
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8yrs/8.5M AAV, without a single year being paid higher than Giordano.
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Except Tkachuk wants $8.5M (or whatever) but on a much shorter deal.
I expect if he would take a $8.5M 8-year deal, it would have been done already.
That's 3 years more than Aho, but for the same money.
And discounting the earlier years makes it less valuable to Tkachuk, which is why teams like to front load them as much as possible. Give the player a financially more valuable deal without affecting the cap.