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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I think those who criticize a GM should say what should have been done instead. But you’d have made Gaudreau around the 10th highest paid player in the league when it looked like he’d peaked 2 seasons before?
Tkachuk wanted $9M at least, hence his QO season number.
I’m not criticizing the move, so I don’t have to say what should have been done.
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Gaudreau would not have been the 10th highest paid player in the league at the number I had, he might have been somewhere in the 20th-30th. Even then, that would've been a max number, If it was me, I would've tried to get him somewhere in the $8.5M-$8.75M range with considerable signing bonuses.
Ultimately, I had predicted that Gaudreau would be a 100 point player prior to start of the 21-22 season, so naturally, paying him in upper echelon of players wouldn't have been an issue for me anyway regardless if his number started with an 8 or a 9. Ditto for Tkachuk. Superstars typically aren't the ones that burn you, it's always the guys in-between that you have to be careful about. One or 2 bad albatross contracts hurts way more than overpaying a few extra thousand for your franchise star(s).