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Originally Posted by driveway
That contract pushes the price Vancouver is going to have to pay Petterssen higher. Nylander and Petterssen have basically identical counting stats since 2018-19, Petterssen is 3 years younger and plays C as opposed to RW.
Those 3 years and the value of a centre over a winger has to be worth at least the 1.5 million per year that will make Petterssen's contract the highest cap-hit in the league.
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One of the few positives about the Flames not having any elite players for now and the foreseeable future is that we can now sit back and watch the rest of the league push the boundaries of maximum salaries.