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Originally Posted by The Cobra
If you have faith in the players progression, you absolutely sign him for as many years as you can.
The Tkachuks have always taken the money when offered. I expect he would have taken 8x $8.5MM if offered, although Calgary did not have a cap room.
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Not a chance in hell he took 8x8.5. Marner signed for $11M, Matthews for $11.6M and Aho got a 5 year $8.5M deal. Maybe if he were open to signing a year out they could have got that deal (before his 34 goal 77pt breakout). Dubas really screwed the RFA deals with his massive money at less than max term for Marner and Matthews. I think the Flames would have been in the 9-9.5 range for 6 years had they been able to get Tkachuk long term.