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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Anyone signing Hanafin to anything longer than 5 years is getting a Suter-to-minnesota deal
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Is that a bad thing?
Suter was 27 in his first season in Minnesota.
In the 8th year of that deal he had 48 points in 69 games and was still a top pairing dman. Suter had Norris or end of season all star team votes in all of the first 8 years of that deal.
If Ryan Suter's deal was 8 years then Minnesota would have been ecstatic with that signing, the problem is it was 13 years. And even then Minnesota was stupid to buy it out when they did IMO.
If you could sign a Ryan Suter comparable for 8 years starting at 27 years old then you would actually be stupid not to do that. And as mentioned this is a much lower % of the cap than Suter's deal was.