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Originally Posted by GullFoss
Hard to say. I think you could build a championship team around 30-34 year old McDavid and Drai, a young Bouchard etc paid at fair market value. It's not a great contract and its a lot of term and it probably won't age well. But rarely can you overpay a franchise player around their prime years. All that said, it's going to be harder to win because they have to pay him fairly now vs a bargain contract prior.
Ultimately, its the big money contracts handed over to non-franchise players and buyouts that hurts teams. Like the Nurse contract. Like the Lucic contract. Like the neal contract. Like the Huby contract.
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Age 22-29 Draisaitl is a franchise player. Age 30-37 Draisaitl will not be one.
It isn't going to be long before the Bedard draft is the class of the league.