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Originally Posted by ricardodw
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.
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Yeah you didn't get my post.
The Werenski model is essentially giving the player a clear option to go straight to UFA at the minimal amount of years. He makes 4,4,7 on his contract so they have to qualify him at 7M. If he signs the QO then he's a UFA in four years and can go wherever he wants.