To be fair if I was Gaudreau I’d be pretty damn tempted to go to free agency too. It’s not without huge risk though… career ending injury or not putting up the same numbers he could be playing with fire here pun intended.
Still it’s likely to the tune of like $2-3MM a year over a sizeable term to settle now or go to free agency unrestricted.
Pure guess but I bet the Flames are offering about 7-7.5/yr and he thinks he could get 9-10/yr in free agency. If he is a point per game player, I could see 9 for sure.
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