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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The team has him for a reasonable cap for 4 year. There is no guarantee that he is a top-10 defensemen in the league after 4 years and that any team will want him at 8M cap hit especially the cap Stays a 80M .
The team is not ruined by losing what turns out being a Gardiner level D-man. (4x4)
When it comes to the QO and the team lets him become a UFA and signs him for a reasonable amount (see Gardiner) OR if he is a top-10 d-man pay him the 8-9M at that time...
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OR a team that struggles to attract UFAs loses yet another promising player they drafted to free agency because he decides to play elsewhere. The threat of unrestricted free agency for a team like CBJ is much, MUCH more than merely the cost on his contract. And for them, losing a player of Werenski’s caliber is likely a hole that is too deep to fill on the market.
The rest of your inane ramblings about Tkachuk and Marner becoming the next Milan Lucic and James Neal is utter nonsense.
I will say that in theory I like the idea of structuring the team on shorter term deals as a means to maintain cap flexibility, but not because of an ongoing anxiety that players will fail to meet expectations. That sounds like a disaster in the making; likely reflective of a paranoid GM who is ill-suited to effectively do his job. I just don’t know how feasible such a model would be.
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