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Originally Posted by nik-
Imagine a 9 million a year Gaudreau?
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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Is that a bad thing if he consistently scores 85-100 points a year?
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Thing is it's going to be 7 years and $9M and he's going to be 29 when that contract starts. So tough to predict that he's going to be scoring 85+ points a year for the life of that contract, maybe even the first three years of that contract.
And I worry about how he ages. He's not a fitness freak like St.Louis or Briere were that aged well as smaller players(and even Briere was pretty much done at 33). He already looked like he lost a step in his skating last year at times and without that explosiveness he was way less effective.
I'd want no part of a $9M contract for Gaudreau that takes him to 35+.