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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
His agent played this perfectly, ran him on a bridge deal, got him a chunky raise, walks him to UFA status so he can either black mail the Oilers for a massive deal or simply put his name on the market while he's still in his prime.
Nurse and his agent are laughing at the Oilers right now, they have them exactly where Nurse would want him to be.
And this whole, he's buddies with McDavid and Draisatil is going to be great when he rips McDavid's heart out when he says "so long, hit you later"
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His agent is going to have to play his next deal perfectly because frankly, I look at $5.6 as a giant overpayment, Nurse may tempt Free Agency but unless the landscape changes dramatically I dont think there are going to be many if any teams clamoring over each other for his services at that price let alone higher.
Maybe try and use the Free Market to bait the Oilers up a bit, but if he wants the money he wants, as I said before, theres likely only 1 team thats going to give it to him and I'd strongly suggest he take it.
Hes done them 2 favours now with bridge deals and I hope he really takes them to the cleaners on his next contract.
Nurse's ceiling seems like a serviceable #4. He should be getting paid 'Kris Russell' money.