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Originally Posted by MegaErtz
I'm all about deals but $3/year is a bit low, no? I mean minimum wage in Alberta is $15/hour.
On a serious not, Gaudreau is a worth well over the $9.5m per year people in this thread are throwing around. He's easily a $12m a year player, just not for the next eight years. We have to be careful, because the cap won't keep going up and up forever and we're going to have to pay this guy around $10m a year until he's what, three months shy of his 37th birthday?
Seems pretty obvious to me that he's decided to take his talents elsewhere. I hope I'm wrong but if I was going to leave, I'd do everything exactly the way he has. I just don't get why he would have played out the last year of his contract and risked a career ending injury if he wasn't intent on leaving. I don't know all the rules but when was he eligible to sign the eight year extension? If it was anytime before the start of the 2021-22 season, I'd say he is as good as gone.
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Again - people are throwing 9.5 around on the basis of a complete guess by Friedman. But no one is giving Gaudreau 12. I don’t see how any winger is “easily” 12x7 or 8. Since it would be a first.