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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Yeah I didn't say that. As an organization you sign long term deals for lots of different reasons, including reducing the AAV (Gio) or betting on future improvement (Rasmus).
If you're spending to the cap and you're at the bottom of the standings, you have too many players not playing to their contracts. We just have a basic difference in player evaluation if you believe Monahan and Andersson are earning their AAV this year and probably no sense debating it further.
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The difference is that most long term contracts are going to have years when the player vastly exceeds the contract and years (usually at the beginning or end) when they don’t. It’s unreasonable to expect otherwise.
Add to that the fact that their comparables in salary mostly produce at the same level. For every bargain like Scheifele I can show you someone who makes more than Monahan and produces less. Same for Andersson (and he’s much more likely to be better value in the next several years - he’s basically only a sophomore).