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Originally Posted by YyjFlames
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.
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Depends how much cap savings it is.
Is it saving you $250k a season? then no I wouldn't. I'd rather pay a bit more in cap than I would limit my future flexibility to move the player.
Now if it's like a $750k per season discount over the course of the 8 years or something then sure maybe, but really all depends how much I'm saving.
Ivan Provorov signed his deal 2 months earlier on a 6 year, $4.725M deal, he was a top 10 pick who was the same age as Andersson, already had a 41 point season, and he didn't get any trade protection.
Which came in pretty handy when the Flyers moved him to Columbus for a 1st, 2nd, and Sean Walker. If he had even a 6 team NTC on that list it's likely Columbus was possibly on it.