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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Definitely. Chia still made 2 brilliant moves in getting max term contracts for their franchise cornerstones and the Draisaitl contract looks to be one of the best in the league.
Unless we see a huge leap forward from Keller I think Chayka’s reign in Arizona might be worse than what Chia did in Edmonton (which is also remarkably bad)
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The Draisaitl contract should be compared to its peers. Mackinnon the year before signed a 6.2M 7 year contract. The next year, Draisatl signed a contract for 8 years 8.5M. Now every player is different every team is different blah blah blah. But Just because Draisatl's contract is good now, doesn't mean it was good for its time.
Indeed, you can point to his contract to being the first to unsustainably inflate RFA value. Over the next few seasons his contract will be rich compared to RFA's as the cap is not going up for about few years.