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Originally Posted by Saqe
Hard to imagine a player turning down something like 8x8.5 and instead taking a risk with injuries and what not. As a 21 year old, that's lifetime security right there. I mean Brady didn't turn down Ottawa.
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Brady was offered 7 x $8.2M coming off a 36 point in 56 game season (52 point season prorated - $158k per point)
Tkachuk was coming off a 77 point in 80 game season...the equivalent type of contract based on only points per game would have been a $12M contract for Tkachuk.
Brady signed his contract because $8.2M was worth way more than Brady had proven he was worth at that time. That wouldn't have been the case with a $8.5M contract for Tkachuk.
The only two longer term RFA deals that the top RFAs signed that offseason were Marner at 6 x $10.9 and Rantanen at 6 x $9.250M.
The rumor I've heard is the only longer term deal that Tkachuk would have accepted at the time was 6 x $9.5M - which personally I get why you'd go 3 x $7M with him being an RFA at expiry instead of 6 x $9.5M where you only are buying 2 UFA years. The real issue is the Flames blew the 19-20 and 20-21 seasons which should have been their window to contend with Monahan, Tkachuk, Gaudreau, Lindholm, Hanifin and Bennett all on great contracts.