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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Yup the Gaudreau offer of $10.5M x 8 seemed to be pretty common knowledge and Huberdeau / Allen would have had that info.
This was my initial reaction:
So yeah I don't think it was getting done for less than what was offered to Gaudreau...especially considering it hypothetically should have been harder to get Huberdeau to forego free agency than it would have been to get Gaudreau to forego it.
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Huberdeau was also over a point per game for the previous 3 seasons prior to his 115 point outburst. It was hard to argue at that time that Huberdeau shouldn't be paid more than Gaudreau.
I hope that Huberdeau can bounce back to at least a point per game. What he needs to do differently to get there, I'm not sure. I feel like theres some explosiveness and drive missing from his game, sure effort looks like it's there but I feel he's afraid to take a risk. I remember in his first preseason he made that amazing spinerama around a defender at our own blueline and than a nice pass for a goal. I want them to take the leash off him, run the powerplay through him, and play him with Sharangovich and Kuzmenko right off the start and see what can happen.