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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Under a contract that's still dumb. NYR is lucky they have Mika Z and Krieder on bargain contracts. Calgary still had Tkachuk to deal with.
NYR is also in cap trouble as a result anyway - they only have 5 D signed with $4M in space.
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If you want a superstar via UFA, that’s what it costs.
When Chara signed with the Bruins, he got $7.5M of a $50.3M cap, or 14.9% of the cap.
Panarin’s $11.6M of the 2019 cap of $81.5M is 14.2% of the cap.
It’s the price of poker.
8x$11.7M, deliberately giving him a higher AAV than Panarin, with the extra year, to finish his career with the team who gave him his shot.
Just like Eichel, they had to make an offer the other side couldn’t refuse.
They didn’t. They made an offer that was apparently quite easy to refuse.
So Eichel is a Golden Knight, and Gaudreau is potentially a… Blue Jacket.
But neither are Flames.