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Originally Posted by transplant99
Maybe not 8, but it would be close.
Have a look at what Guenther just got, and he has much less experience and is a winger compared to Mercer being a C.
This is a hell of a deal IMO and this guy is exactly the kind of player the Flames are missing up front.
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He got 3 X $4M.
Comparing that to 8 X $8M implies that he would expect 5X $10.4M for his next deal. That's quite a raise.
Absolutely no way he takes 3X $4M if anything anywhere remotely close to 8 X $8M was on the table for a long term deal.
I would suspect that the number on the table for 8 years would have been more like $6M. Even that requires him to get $7.2M for the next 5 (which sounds more in line with this contract).