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Originally Posted by JonDuke
A low ball on a guy like Backstrom might have worked 2 years ago but I think the bidding strategy has changed since the buyout rule change and teams can now throw lots of money at players close to the end of their careers knowing they won't get penalized when the player retires. I miss the old way tbh but the game evolves and GMs adapt.
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Actually I think there are fewer huge deals now. Most of the deals are now sub $5M on a per year basis. We used to see 7M+ deals but I think GMs saw that those could really hurt. There are less big ticket offers and less low ball offers. It's now concentrated more in the middle.
The risk now is not that the player retires and you get hit with a buyout (since indeed we did away with that), but now more than the player degrades rating wise and you are stuck with him on a one way deal and you either buy them out and take the hit, or have a high cap player on your roster.