With Tkachuk there are stories that they would have gone "long term" with him but the cap was an issue. But "long term" has never been defined by Tkachuk. I suspect it was 6 years, not 8. And sure, you could dump cap in order to get there. But it seems to me Tkachuk still ended up with a contract that made him the highest paid Flame for 3 years and guaranteed him $9M for a 4th year. So he got a 4 year deal and not a 6 year deal (which would have expired in the next season, puting him in the same crew as as Lindholm, Hanifin, Backlund, Zadorov and Tanev).
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