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Originally Posted by Robbob
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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I agree, the number maybe not completely irrelevant, but for me fair is around $13 to $14 mil. To me this contract is on the higher end of fair and no way is a discount. I think if he wanted north of $14 mil you have to consider other options.
Of course, it would be much better if he signed for $12.5 mil or less, but that wasn't an option unless he took a discount.
The issue the Oilers have is Nurse, Campbell, Neal, Brown's bonus and 0 ELC's and cheap RFA contracts with term on their team. These issues do not make Leon's contract bad. It's not a great contract, it has risk but the idea that they could just land a high end dman with a good contract and term on that contract or they would be better off walking him to UFA is just ridiculous. They made the right choice, especially if they want to keep McDavid too.