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Originally Posted by jayswin
You have this wrong. Longer term actually adds cap hit for star players. That's why Gaudreau was rumoured to be closer to 7.5/8mil AAV on this current contract if he had signed 8 years instead of the 6 he signed for.
Lower cap hits for more years was more a thing back when you could circumvent with really low final years, aka Kiprusoff, Hossa etc.
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I think that is true when you're burning prime UFA years. His next contract goes until he's 36-37. Unless he's banking on being a Jagr, the contracts after this one (if he's still playing) could arguably be in the $1million range. He could get 10x7 on the open market, but 8 x 9 or 9.5 gives him an extra 2-6 million. Which would be more than a 1 year swan song contract at the back end of his career.