[Sylvanfan]

This certainly does seem to show the shift that the completely restricted years still will allow a player to make a pretty good salary. But than again, chances are the 3 most productive years of Tkachuck's career will be his next 3 years.

This does fit my theory where you have your best players signed for 3 years at managable numbers, so now is when you go for it, and the team will have options to move a few good assets with another year of team control to reload if they need to.