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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I agree that a LW contract can't be too high. As good as Gaudreau is, it's just not the position you can afford to spend the farm on. Treliving seems to me to be strictly market based. Which means a Kaprizov contract (JG will ask for Panarin and Treliving hopefully will say "that was a stupid contract"). I mean, Kucherov just signed a couple years ago, plays RW (albeit left handed), makes $9.5 and he's better than Gaudreau. I suppose you could say Gaudreau and Rantanen are worth the same and pay him $9.25. Or up the value with more term.
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What is market value? What the most desperate team is willing to pay? I think it's clear that Coleman and Markstrom are Flames because Treliving was willing to give more money/term than 31 other teams for those players. I personally don't understand why a GM would be happy to overspend for a depth guy like Coleman and not a difference maker like Gaudreau.