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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Worst case they heavily underperform the contract.
It’s not like young defencemen are automatic wins. Put guys like Jones or Nurse on their big contracts 6 years earlier than they got them and they would’ve brutally underperformed it the entire way through… which they’re probably going to do anyway.
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Weird examples. Nurse in 2018 would have been $5-5.5 million with 3 years left as of today, and Jones did sign a fairly big contract coming out of his entry level deal $5.4 over 6 years. If they went $6 million over 8 he'd be in the last year of his deal. Both would be looking good.
Tyler Myers is a good example of a guy that looked like he was going to be a perennial 40 point D-man who fell off after signing a big second contract. Even still the Sabres were able to get value for him in trade. His big contract to the Canucks in his late 20s is the most regrettable deal there.
The third contract or signing a guy long term at 27+ seems to be by far the more risky route when it comes to contracts.