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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
The problem with the idea of a "discount" is you have to agree to what the player is worth before the discount.
With Holloway and Broberg they were supposedly asking for $1.5M and $1.8M respectively...which based on what St.Louis was willing to offer you could consider was already a discount.
So at that point taking $1M to stay in Edmonton isn't being willing to take a discount, but actually just being lowballed.
It's the same case with Draisaitl right now.
He's going to think he's worth $14M+ per season based on Matthews deal, and I actually don't see him wanting to take less tham Matthews $13.25M. I think there is a bit of competition between those 2 and that Drai sees himself as clearly the better player.
For Draistail he's going to think that $13.25M is already taking a big discount.
But for Oilers brass and media they seem to think that Draisaitl should be taking between $11-$12M in order to stay and take a discount. And honestly I just don't see that happening.
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No one is taking that big of a discount to stay in Edmonton I am sorry.
Let's look at Colorado. MacKinnon took 100K more than McDavid, it looks like a great deal now, but at the time it was signed the cap was in flux. The team was about to lose a bunch of pieces to free agency from the cup winning team.
Kadri loved Colorado, he could have taken a discount to stay but he didn't. Burakovsky took the money and went to Seattle.
Florida has players leave, even grinders like Cousins and Lomberg. Could have probably signed for less but they took the money and left.
Edmonton hasn't even won a thing and they keep talking about winning and chasing cups.
Someone is going to pay Drai what he wants maybe more, while Oiler fans can look out the window holding a sign that says but but cups and winning.
Winning is also random af, and most of these probably think they can take the money and go win with that team.
They use examples of 3rd anf 4th liners as discount players but most of them have been paid and aren't really taking a discount and probably just want a job. Using 12 point Janmark as an example and saying he took 1.45M as a discount is ridiculous.