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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
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.
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Yeah, that Provorov contract was a deal at the time for sure, but I was pretty happy with locking up Andersson for six years at that price then as well (nit picking, but Provorov could have still been traded, as Andersson only got protection in the last two years of his contract).
It's really not something that teams have to give out to young players, but it also reinforces to your core young players that a team is serious about building around them... which is why Zary, Coronato and Wolf will probably all get some sort of protection if they sign five year + deals.