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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Was he selling himself as a franchise player?
At the moment, Huberdeau's salary is the 11th highest in the NHL. Here are the players ahead of him:
McKinnon
McDavid
Panarin
Matthews
Karlsson
Pastrnak
Doughty
Tavares
Marner
Price
After the top four, I'm not seeing any franchise players on that list. A lot of franchises haven't got anyone that could be fairly described as a franchise player. Some franchise players are on older contracts, signed when the cap was smaller, and therefore making less money. Some guys who are definitely not franchise players were signed to big-money deals in the expectation of the cap going up sharply (which is scheduled to happen starting next year).
The Flames overpaid Huberdeau, not because they expected him to score 115 points every season, but because they were deathly afraid of the PR hit they would take by losing their best forward to free agency two years running. (This was a legitimate fear.) His agent was smart enough to advise his client to shut up and take the money. Should he have held out for less?
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Pasternak Isn’t franchise ?
I stopped reading the post.
The guy is 4th in league scoring , has 102 (yes 102) goals since the start of last season , and has the 5th most points since the start of last season behind McD, Drais, Kuch and McKinnon .
If this guy isn’t franchise I don’t know who is
Edit - Saw you mention he slipped as I wrote this
Crazy how good he is