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Originally Posted by Robbob
I think they are going to open up a can of worms if they try to squeeze them to accept a league min contract.
A team can sign them for 1.5M and not have to compensate the Oilers. Why would you sign for half of that. I think almost any team would be happy to help the player and agent out and sign that offer sheet and force the Oilers hand. I think either would be worth a 3rd pick with an AAV around 2M.
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Not just that, There's no way that Holloway is going to agree to league minimum when he got paid 925 last year, nor Boingboing.
And it would bode really badly for future negotiations for both players in the future if the Oilers play hard ball.
I will expect that they're both going to be looking in the 1.5 range.
I mean after the hype up for both players, and that they're really outside of Savoie the only somewhat decent young players that the Oilers have, they can't play hardball.
the only way around it then would be to use one of them as inducement to move Kane's cap hit.