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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Agreed
But in a lot of these cases the teams hold the leverage.
Rfa rules largely favour the team
I think ultimately it will be a four year deal. Flames get two ufa years and he still hits ufa at a relatively young age
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Some of these rfa deals have been gigantic. The way I see it, the club has leverage on dollars, he has leverage on term. The longer the term the club wants, the more leverage he has.
To give up two years of UFA for him will cost. But to your point, he could cash in huge at the end of that deal so not a deal breaker for him.
Also have to factor how much cap room the club has. I don’t how they upgrade the forward without adding salary.
And then of course what is Mangiapane worth. 28% of his production this year came in a 4 game exhibition series. I’m wary of paying for that.
Would 4*4 get it done?