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Originally Posted by ComixZone
It won't happen. Tkachuk only has 1 RFA year left - and we didn't overpay up front to lock him longer term like how Edmonton did. Their early commitment will pay dividends for the next 5 years.
It's why I hated the 3-year deal for Tkachuk, but at the same time Draisaitl's deal was done in a pre-Matthews era - and Matthews signing his deal screwed up that entire year of RFAs. Rather than getting the sweet deals like Draisaitl at 8.5, we got shorter term deals for all the bigger RFAs.
Tkachuk is elite, and will be paid accordingly. His qualifying offer being what it will be gives him a lot of leverage in contract negotiations - because if the number doesn't get to where he wants it, he can take the 1-year big money qualifying offer and walk to free agency the next summer.
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Sure he can, but he’d be taking $10mil guaranteed instead of $64-$70mil guaranteed... you make it sounds like he obviously wouldn’t take less than his qualifying offer for 8 years, which I highly doubt.