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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I think signing Mang for two years is as big a screw up as signing Tkachuk to a bridge deal was (different scale though). Brutal contract management in the bottom six has caused the team a cap crunch today, and will cause cap issues going forward.
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Tkachuk scored 61 points last season and has 3 goals and 2 assists in 15 playff games.
If he evens out to 60 point player instead of an 80 point player, which at this point seems like a very realistic possibility, we'll be quite happy in 2022 that Tkachuk isn't getting paid like he can score a point per game.
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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Tkachuk is going to see a huge increase after his deal is up, and he will have all the leverage.
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See above. I think there's a good chance the increase isn't going to be what it looked like in 2019.
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Mangiapane looks like he will be in the same boat.
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Huge maybe. His current season record is 32 points and less than 0.5 PPG. Throwing either term or money at guys this early in their NHL careers is a bad idea.
The reason Mangiapane looks so good is because his tenacity stands out among our top 6. This is not a knock on Mangiapane, but I feel like people have been kind of blinded by relatively low expectations and the contrast which doesn't flatter most of our other guys.
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Gaudreau's contract comes up. Giordano's contract comes up. Monahan's the year after. Those are all very important deals on core players. The core is not locked-up long term. Treliving is going to have to navigate the next off-seasons incredibly carefully.
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While true, two years is a lot of time. Gaudreau might not be here. Giordano might not be here.
BTW, Monahan was a 50 point player last season and 4th in TOI/G among forwards, which is not good for a 1st line center. His real claim to fame was being a guy who could put the puck in the net when given the slightest opportunity, but the last we saw that Moneyhands guy was before the 2019 all-star break.
To my eyes it looks like Monahans magic scoring hands are pretty much gone with his injuries, and they've now been gone so long that I wouldn't bet on them coming back. If my guess is right, he'll be lucky to get a raise at all.
To put it bluntly, lately our top players haven't looked like we need to worry about finding cap space for them in two years, as they've been the reason we've been getting crap results.