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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Hindsight, yeah a bargain (unless he reverts to 2020-21 stats). At the time, people would have been calling for Treliving's head, saying he caved, cost the team it's future by tying up too much cap, that he was going to lose Tkachuk, should tie himself to a guy who couldn't get it done. Etc.
Tell me who predicted a 110 point fit from Gaudreau before this last season.
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Brad routinely goes out on UFA day and overpays for free agents. If he overpaid for a guy who was a a PPG guy the previous three seasons (last summer) or if you want to have a more negative time frame was a 0.88 PPG guy the year before I would have been fine with it.
He gave a 31 year old guy who had averaged 0.64 PPG the previous three years and 0.62 PPG the previous year 5.75 million dollar a year contract over 5 years under a 79.5 million dollar cap (7.23% of the cap)
He gave a a 31 year old forward who had averaged 0.51 PPG over the previous 3 years and 0.52 PPG in his last year a 4 year 4.5 million dollar a year contract under a 73 million dollar cap (6.16% of the cap)
I would have been fine giving a guy who is twice the player that either of those guys were before they joined the Flames 10-11% of the value of the cap on a long term deal last summer (somewhere between 8 and 9 million a year). No questions asked I would have signed a contract in that range. Anything above 11% I would probably have thought about personally.
But his 20/21 stats were a 28 goal, 44 assist 72 point season over 82 games. It was not like he was dog#### the year before last.