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Originally Posted by getbak
Not that I'm aware of. I'd be interested in seeing/hearing a quote of Treliving saying such a thing.
He may have vaguely made reference to it when Gaudreau was signed. No one who has signed since then has really ever approached having a contract of that value, so it wouldn't really make sense for Treliving to mention it when no one has come within $1 million of Gio/Gaudreau's cap hit since Johnny signed.
Regardless, Gaudreau signed 3 years ago when the cap was 89.6% of this year's cap. With the rate at which the cap goes up every year, it would be foolish to think they could maintain the same internal player cap for 6 seasons.
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You're right I couldn't find anything of Treliving referencing it, but I found an article saying that "the Flames didn't want to pay Gaudreau north of Gio's cap hit", with no source. Which obviously doesn't prove anything really.
But given that Johnny's initial ask was rumoured to be north of $8M, do you think it's a coincidence that they settled on Gio's exact AAV of $6.75M? Could be I guess, but that's pretty strong anecdotal evidence IMO.
There's obviously no way that Tkachuk will come under that given the cap rising, but maybe as a % of total cap would be how they frame it.