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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
The only NTC I'm not a super big fan of him giving out is Andersson TBH.
Huberdeau, Kadri, Coleman, Weegar...those types of deals to avoid UFA or for a UFA are always going to come with a NTC.
But the Andersson one actually annoys me - he was a 23 year old with 134 Career NHL games when he signed that contract, and had only had a 20 point season in his career to that point.
I'd argue $4.55M was a good contract for him at that point, but wasn't even really a discount, it was a bit of a bet on it being a great long term deal...which it was. But really there was no reason Andersson's deal at that time should have required a NTC.
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To put it into context, would you give Wolf, Zary or Coronato a modified NTC if it meant bringing down the average annual value or increasing the number of years?
There's probably a fair to decent chance that at least one and maybe all three will have similar protections if they sign deals longer than 3 years. It's pretty typical for young players considered core to have at least back end protection on longer term deals.