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Originally Posted by Tacoman
I have a friend who is an NHL executive for a team in the US and he said that any team that uses analytics heavily was at a max of $8 million for Johnny. When he came out to the market, the offers just weren't there. Lewis Gross just completely misred the market. Only two teams were desperate enough to go against the analytics - the Flames who wanted to keep the face of the franchise and Columbus who can never sign a free agent and don't really care.
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They must be looking at analytics that aren't known by the public because by almost all measures he is elite.
If instead they are using age trends to predict his value over the next 7 years, that's a different story.