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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Lindholm was at 16 goals, 44 points, in 82 games the year before Treliving signed him to $4.85. That’s about the PPG Mangiapane is at now.
Given a bit of a higher cap since then, yeah, $5M would be fair, though if he explodes the way Lindholm did it will look brilliant.
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Lindholm did have the potential to play centre though (even if he might have been viewed as more winger at the time), which might add some premium. Lindholm also had pretty much 4 seasons of ~0.5ppg vs. Mangiapane's essentially 2 seasons (178 GP is just over two seasons worth), so a bit of a larger sample size. But Mangiapane is trending upwards while Lindholm's production in Carolina was pretty flat so that's a point in his favour. All in all I think it is a reasonable comparable and I think a 5-6 year deal at $5M would be fair to both sides. Since signing RFAs is his specialty though, I expect it to come in under $4.5M if Treliving negotiates the contract.