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Originally Posted by Ashasx
The problem is that signing Tkachuk long term now means you're likely paying him as a 100 point player for the next 8 years.
I don't know if Tkachuk is that without Gaudreau.
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Shrug... He's produced without Johnny on the other wing. Sure not at the 100 point level but he was pretty darn close to being a PPG player on the 3M line which took the lions share of the hard competition minutes and, while I love Backs and appreciated Frolik, neither of them are as talented an offensive player as Lindholm. I feel pretty confident that he could be a 90 point player without Gaudreau... and that 10 points difference ain't enough for me to say that we shouldn't lock him down now.
We can weather losing Johnny... but I don't think we can weather losing Johnny and Chucky.