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Originally Posted by Bingo
Hope Calgary doesn't do a deal like this.
Too risky with the puffy final year on the contract. If Boeser wants to go home to the U.S. he can just sign his QO and make himself a UFA in four years.
Why GMs are jumping on this model is beyond me.
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The short term deals protect the teams. Not all of the 12 or so of the elc/rfas are going to be HoFers probably 4-5 would ruin a team with a 8x8 contract.
The GMs (or maybe the owners) have pretty well done to manage the risk of not betting the next decade of a franchise's success on a 21 year old player that in fact is not Sid or McConnor.
The cap rising strategy has big holes in it caused by escrow.
Using the rising cap strategy Tkacuk's 8M becomes 6.4 -7.2m when the Cap hits 100M and escrow takes 10%- 20%
Gaudreau and Monahan signed fair deals at the time. Now not only are they falling behind lesser players ( than they are now and were when they signed) they are not even getting the money they signed for.