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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
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.
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I'd love to have Draisaitl on my team for 8.5M for the next 6 years. Chia lucked himself into that contract as at the time it was a bit of an overpay. But still, it looks pretty good today. I'd be thrilled if Tkachuk's next deal came in at 8.5×8. And biases aside I think Draisaitl>Tkachuk