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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I intended it to read as that I think he will sign his ELC and if he looks like a player in the NHL the team will need to be aggressive in signing him to a long term extension kind of like what the Sabres have been doing with their young guys. Hope that he values the security of a long term deal over playing things out to free agency. You don't want these American players getting a whiff of free agency.
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Yes, the RFA contracts have been aggressive. Big risk reward, but it seems to me much less of a risk than big UFA ones. TBF, Tkachuk is the only one I can think of who gave up zero UFA years. And I’m not sure it wasn’t cap that prevented a long term deal - they didn’t have the bucks to make him an 8 year offer. In hindsight, they should have figured it out even if it meant doing things like they later did with Monahan to shed cap.