Can't believe we are at almost 25 pages here.
At the end of the the day it is pretty simple, it is a contract they had to sign, and the number was irrelevant. Draisaitl will never live up to the contract in the long term, but I don't think they care in taking the plunge, because it isn't easy getting a player of that quality. Even if that player is now on the back nine of their career.
It also is really the only way they have a chance of extending McDavid. They have always been atrocious with cap management considering the entire decade of Draisaitl and McDavid with all the dead money and brutal contracts.
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