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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Players are seldom signed for 8 years and low amounts. Because they are essentially betting against themselves.
Coronato you don't consider signing regardless, you have no idea what you have.
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64 players are signed for 7 or 8 years next year who were signed in their RFA years. Some like Eriksson-Ek are signed fairly cheap. Almost all end up outperforming their contracts by the middle of the contract.
The Flames have signed 1 RFA player to 7 years or more in their franchise history. Sign Zary for 5 million a year for all I care. But there are many examples of players who have signed in the 4-5.5 million range for 7 or 8 years. That is what the Flames need to try to do.
Ironically there are 72 players who were signed to 7-8 year contracts as UFA’s. The Flames have 3 of them right now. Those contracts have a much higher failure rate.