Quote:
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.
|
Not on retirement contracts, which this would be. Gaudreau's choice would be make a lot of total money on a 6 year deal and then look for work at a pretty low wage afterwards (or retire). Or be guaranteed to make a fair bit more total over 8 years on the contract and not look for work.