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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
You let me know when a team wins a cup with a $6 million Brock Nelson. Just because some teams are willing to pay that much for players of that ilk doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
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Alex Steen was making $5.75M and Bozak $5M when the Blues won the cup.
Nelson is probably a better player than both of them. Maybe not at the peak of their careers, but better than them now than when they won the cup with the Blues.
And to be clear I'm not advocating for $6M for Mangiapane. To me $5M x 5 seasons still seems like the right deal if they can make that work. Would mean he's making $5M until he's 31 years old (think that's the math on his age). Anything less than $5M would be even better, but my gut feeling is that if they try to do an extension this summer is that it's probably 5 years for about $5M per season.