[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

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.

How's that going anyway?