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Originally Posted by fleury
Guys, overpaying by $1.5 is a big deal in a cap world. You have to make sure you don’t overpay for anyone, but justifying overpaying because we’ve overpaid others is flawed logic. If you can’t get rid of that contract it’s a big deal. Johnny is not worth $11M at all in my mind. Go back to multiple posts over the past three or four years where the pitchforks were out to see how inconsistent he’s been at times. I’m not a hater but he slots in well at $9.5. At $11 it’s a franchise altering number and if you’re banking on him as your future cornerstone for the next eight years many of us will be screaming in five years where this will be a handcuff to what we do. Same posters complain about what McDavid’s contract has done for the oil and he’s a far better player (honestly objectively). These massive contracts are team killers.
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Slightly overpaying to re-sign Johnny makes sense at this point. The alternative is to go right back to being a yearly bubble team. It's not what Sutter is here for.