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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
He has been a remarkably consistent player with six straight seasons between 70-80 points so while I'm not a fan of these kind of deals for 30 year old players I can see him remaining fairly productive to the end of it.
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He's 33 when it kicks in. But while there are exceptions, I don't think you can take his production from 26-32 as any strong indicator of production a year or so into this contract.
He'll more likely be like Markus Naslund: PPG until 32 then hedropped to 60, the 55, then 46 points. So not useless, but not a top player. Or Corey Perry who fell similarly after 32.
I just feel like this isn't a contract like Gio's that captures most of the prime years and adds a couple weaker ones at the end. They might be paying him now right at the beginning of the slide.
I am pretty unsure he gets that same contract elsewhere.