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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
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.
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Tkachuk's Qualifying Offer after his contract ends is $9M.
$64M-$70M puts him at a $8M-$8.75M cap hit over a max 8-year deal.
If he were to take the $9M and walk, he'd need a $7.85M-$8.70M cap hit on a 7-year deal to equal that $64M-$70M.
On his current trajectory, I'd say he'd quite easily eclipse the $8M cap hit mark with a UFA team but probably unlikely he surpasses $9M.
At that point, he's very unlikely to get a better outcome by taking the $9M Qualifying Offer and then walking to UFA then he would just extending in Calgary on a max-term, $8M-$8.75M cap hit.
However, the ability to pick his own destination might be alluring enough to Tkachuk that he decides to take the risk and bet on himself by taking the $9M Qualifying Offer and betting on a great season with no major injuries.
But, with THAT said, the first thing he said during his presser after signing his current contract was that he told Treliving right from the start of negotiations that he wanted to sign long-term but they just couldn't make the numbers work because of the cap-crunch so I have many reasons to believe he actually loves Calgary and wants to be here long term.