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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper

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).

Go look at salaries at the time. he’d have been around 10th.