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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Thing is even with what you just said he should probably be worth at most $10-10.5M.
7 forwards in the NHL make over $11M - Matthews, Mackinnon, McDavid, Pastrnak, Panarin, Tavares and now Nylander.
He's not in the range of Matthews, Mackinnon, McDavid, or Pastrnak...and the other two were overpayments to get a guy in UFA.
Nobody else could give Nylander anything close to $92M - which is a $13M AAV on a 7 year contract. Treliving really isn't taking advantage of the benefit of the 8th year in these negotiations IMO. Really feels like this contract should have been at most the same as Huberdeau and around $10.5M. But he's getting an extra $1M.
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Truth is there are very few elite players who can carry a team solely when it’s most needed. I’d argue there are probably a handful of those elite guys in the league - Sid, McDavid, MacKinnon, Makar, and maybe Kucherov. The rest are either not consistent or play within a deep team to allow them to rack up big points. Those select few would do it by themselves. So Tre is signing a non elite guy to a contract but it’s not an elite contract at today’s current rate. But it still may work out. The structure is a huge problem though from a risk mitigation standpoint. That’s on the GM.
I have to wonder if Tre is up to his old practices of working in isolation. Brandon Pridham is well respected and can be consulted on the cap but I wonder if Tre is driving the ship to try and make it work.