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Originally Posted by HighLifeMan
Gaudreau 8 years / 62M (7.75M AAV) other teams would have to offer 8.86M AAV over 7 years to meet that total. Fair number for both sides and a contract comparable to Sean Couturier.
Tkachuk 6 years / 51M (8.5M AAV) - this pays him appropriately and takes him to 31 years old where he can still cash in and finish his career wherever he deems fit. He get's slightly more than his brother and both become UFA's the same summer.
That's only an extra 2.5M in capspace compared to this season.
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I’d not think either player would take those offers. Especially with how they are playing right now. To sign both players, the flames will likely have to offer them max term and $.
For tkachuk to maximize his earnings, he’ll either want a deal that makes him a UFA next year, when he’s 28 (maybe), or when he’s 33/34. So that means the flames will have to sign him to a max term or to a 1 year deal.
The extra year that the flames can offer him will likely be used as an incentive for him to sign. If the flames offer him an AAV that’s below the market value, that negates the incentive of the extra year. Using your example, Gaudreau would want the $8.86 M AAV for 8 years. That gives him the incentive to sign with the flames over anyone else. Offering him $7.75 million for 8 years doesn’t help if he could make the same amount of money over 7 years as he could over 8 years.
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