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Originally Posted by 868904
I really don't think the Marner contract has any relevance.
Aho is the best comparable at 5 years $8.5 million. Aho has the premium position but Tkachuk brings more to the table other than scoring. The advanced stats all suggest they are similar.
Tkachuk camp asking $9.5, Flames countering at $7.5. Pretty easy to see where the contract should be.
Just go in the middle and be done with it. This drags on into the season and the first year is wasted.
Flames need to move up here. The market is the market. At some point, you are just being stubborn. If you have to move some players to get it done, you do it. There are players on the fringe who could be moved to make the cap space: Frolik, Czarnik, Jankowski.
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And Tkachuk's party needs to move down. "The market" may be the market, but it looks to me that that is still far from set, and remains pretty fluid. Yeah, Aho's deal is a good comparable, but so are William Karlsson's, Brock Boeser's and Timo Maier's.
I just don't think things are so abundantly clear right now where Tkachuk falls within that group.