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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This, to me, is an insane contract and a mistake that will really hurt the team in a few years. Wish I could say otherwise but my immediate reaction is overwhelmingly negative.
I'd have much preferred they beat the price Seattle gave for Bjorkstrand, even - obviously not the same tier of player but the cap space is just so much more valuable right now than anything else, and of all the high-earning player types, scoring wingers are the least valuable assets based on the transactions we've seen this summer. Even on that front, if you were going to allocate cap space to a scoring winger, the better bet would be to pay Mangiapane whatever it took to lock him up for 8 years than do this.
I wouldn't have given him 10 million per and I wouldn't have given a term over 6 years. Even 6x9.5 is a bit risky from where I sit. This deal is absurd.
Hope I'm wrong... and hope Weegar comes in for a more reasonable figure.
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I don’t think the last 4 years matter. The team will need to rebuild anyway at that point so during those rebuilding years having overpaid guys doesn’t really matter. So term isn’t really an issue. The extra 500-750k hurts but I think the other option was burn it to the ground. I prefer this deal to that