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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I am quite sure that ask is not on an eight-year term. My guess would be six—the Flames’s counter-offer might be on five-years.
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I would now say Tkachuk comes in between $7.25-.75M on a six year deal. The number does not go up perceptibly from here, and the more games he misses, the smaller the number gets.
When you're going to make over $40M on this contract and be young enough to make another $80M on your next one. I cannot think of a single recent example of a player as good as Matthew Tkachuk who did not get paid boatloads of money on their late-20s contract, or was catastrophically injured in their prime.
The great players are successful into their early 30s and then decline at varying degrees. But by then, they've gotten paid. Nobody's giving 28 year old Matt Tkachuk a four year deal. He's going to make $120+ million before his career is over.
I'd prefer if he didn't miss all of camp, but I can appreciate it. He starts missing regular season games, that's silliness. He's going to be paid like he's the best player on the team. I'm almost certain the offer he has on the table gives him that. And I'm even betting it makes him the highest paid player in franchise history. I bet it has killer lockout protections.
But he's not the team's best player. He's not the best player at his position on the team, and he plays the least valuable position on the ice (not to discount his contribution).
So I wouldn't understand why someone who wasn't all these things would need to miss games when he's already won.