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I want some of the Kool-aid the Hippo tank crew is drinking up there

Taken from reddit

Spoiler!

If the Oilers wanted 8 years of Bouchard's prime locked up, it would have been 11.5-12 million easy.

Why?

Evan Bouchard is ####ing elite. He's elite of elite.

Not only is he an at-minimum 65+ point per year, right shot defenseman, he ####ing drives the play.

JFresh model has him at 97% in terms of value. Dom at the Athletic has Bouchard as the NHL's 5th best D man.

Yeah, he's getting paid. But we have to deal with it.

Why did Ekblad take 6.1? Because Ekblad is literally worth less than half of Bouchard and he's on a deep ####ing hockey team.

Oiler fans can be mad at a lot of contracts handed out by this organization over the last decade.

This Bouchard deal (in comparison to Nurse, Lucic, Jack Campbell and so many more) is not one they should be mad at.

There are like 2-3 D men in the NHL I'd contemplate taking on my team over him: Q. Hughes, Cale Makar and maybe Rasmus Dahlin. All those dudes are gonna be getting absolutely paid.