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Originally Posted by TheoFleury
Except you don't know how that contract will age. Playmakers age more gracefully and the cap is going to be at least 100m in 5 years. By then, he's 10% of the cap. Only way that's an anchor is if he's a 45-55 point player at that point. That is not a bet I'd be willing to take. He's much more likely to age like Ray Whitney than anything IMO
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When assessing value, you have to work under the assumption that it will age like 90% of contracts do.
Once again, don't get me wrong, it was 100% the right move to push all the chips in. When Gaudreau/Tkachuk announced their intentions to leave, that left the Flames with all the pieces required to win, but the star forwards. I do think in 4 yeas or so the Flames could be F-ed, which is fine, as a four year competing window is huge.
Treliving somehow managed to acquire new forwards plus bring in a top pairing d-man.
You could also add in Kadri to the deal to the Tkachuk/Huberdeau. The first from the Tkachuk deal was used to shed Monahan and use that cap space was used to acquire Kadri. It was a very tight cap market, for all competing teams, so that first was massive.