I doubt other owners are too happy to see the structure of that contract. Barkov is about as safe of a bet as you can make, but salary at only $1M with those huge signing bonuses every season is a structure that top players are going to be demanding all over.
As for how this impacts Gaudreau and Tkachuk, it's true that its apples to oranges. However, with Kucherov and Landeskog locked in at sub $10M contracts, you would think that Gaudreau or Tkachuk would have to have monster seasons to even be close to an 8 figure AAV.
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