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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The Wild awarded this bum with a 2 x 2M NTC contract, This is a team that has 15M in cap tied up in the parise/Suter buyouts for the next 2 years.
This is also is a team that expects to make the playoffs. What do they know ?
What would you be comfortable with Flames extending Backlund. I would guess that 2x2 would be the high end of his extension.
You wonder how the NHL brains figure out how the player ages out.
Dallas was confident that Pavelski would be productive signing the 39 year old to 3.5 plus 2M in performance bonuses for next year.
They also signed him as a 38 year old to a 5.5 x 1 and are paying him an extra 500K in performance bonus.
10 days before his 35th birthday they signed him to a 7x3. How did they know that he was not going to age out?
Does the league as a whole somehow expect Backlund to be done at 35?
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Honestly don't follow.
None of that seems to counter nor agree with anything I said in replying to your last post.
The market is stunted. I'm guessing it frees up closer to the trade deadline when the next cap raise is more closely on the horizon. Backlund has value beyond just comparing ages, or production.