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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I'm not sure Draistsil stayed because of some promise from McDavid.
They put $14 x 8 in front of him, and he knew he wasn't getting $16 x 7 from another team so he took the contract.
I think if he knew the cap was going up so much he might have waited since he could maybe have gotten $15 x 7 from somewhere.
But might as well take the guaranteed $112M and not risk it.
It will probably be the same with McDavid. I think they might move Bouchard in the offseason as an RFA and will offer McDavid something like $144 x 8.
That's the equivalent of 20.5 x 7 which is going to be tough for any team to beat.
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It's almost no lose for Calgary though. Either he leaves and Edmonton is sad and doesn't recover. Or he stays and cripples the budget and they have no better of a team than they currently have.