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Old 09-09-2023, 08:05 AM   #75
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Originally Posted by Oil Stain View Post
No one would have offered them those contracts coming out of entry level deals though.

In most cases the 8 year deal is to get a guy on a rising trajectory locked in. Like Brady Tkachuk who looked overpaid until last season.
…Correct, you don’t even have to say “no one would have,” because no one did, and it would have been a mistake to do so because they would have underperformed the contract, which is the point.
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