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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Players with 8 year contracts not even in play yet aren’t deadline deals.
Contenders can’t fit them in.
If they sign 8 year contracts, they are here for some time.
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It's a pretty unique situation, and I don't think a TDL trade is very likely, but it's definitely possible. There are a few potential contenders who will have significant wiggle room with expiring deals next year (BOS, CAR, STL). It adds a bit of risk for any other team, but if they float him out in advance of UFA day they would almost certainly get a 2nd+ (probably a lot more).
Not much different than what TBL just did with McDo or CBJ with Bjorkstrand.
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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
MacKenzie Weegar comparables? Jacob Slavin and Jake Muzzin? $5.3-$5.625? Six years, $33.5M, for a cap hit of $5.584? Huberdeau comparisons? Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk? $9.5M? 8 years, $76M, for that $9.5M cap hit?
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Slavin signed his deal 5 years ago and is one of the best bargains in the league. He's about as safe/reliable as D-men get...that's definitely not true of Weegar.
Muzzin might be closer, though he was 31.
I'm not sure my suggestion is any better, but I'd say he's somewhere between Risto and Hamilton (a pretty darn wide gap). Is Weegar actually kinda similar to Phaneuf?