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Originally Posted by gvitaly
For everyone using the $9M qualifying offer as an argument, you are simply wrong. A team can choose team elected arbitration instead of submitting a QO to a player like Tkachuk. In that case he will be awarded at least 85% of his previous year’s salary. For Tkachuk it was something like $7.6M, I can’t remember.
I am willing to bet anyone that Tkachuk won’t get a $9M QO, unless he has a career year this season. I think it is far more likely he will come in under or around $8M if it is a one year deal.
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Same outcome. Through arbitration he is forced to sign the one year contract determined by the arbiter, then becomes a UFA at the completion of that contract. Still holds the majority of the cards and only makes it worse for the team because the process is bloody and public.