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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I think if you could have gotten Tkachuk to sign at $9 x 8 that probably would have been fine in 2019.
But if they would have paid him anything more than that they would have been criticized at the time.
Tkachuk will always say what he thinks the media/fanbase wants him to say, there is no honestly in what he tells the media. He can say he would have signed long term here all he wants but I highly doubt it unless it was $10M x 8 back in 2019.
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I tend to believe Tkatchuk would have been ok to sign an $8M x 8 years coming out of his ELC. It would have made him a UFA at age 29, where he can sign one more monster deal (assuming he believes in his own playing ability). That would have been the way to max out his earnings, and also why I believe Brady was willing to sign that in Ottawa.