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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
That is because of all teams, Edmonton usually is the one that hands out 8 year contracts like it's nobody's business, but didn't give Nurse the same treatment. For whatever reason, they love to hardball their defenseman (Bouchard should have received an 8 year deal after his monster playoffs, but they didn't think he did lol), Nurse when he was a 5.6mer, and Broberg, but we all know how that went down.
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For what it's worth, I have it on good authority that Bouchard's camp didn't want 8 years.
Gets to dip back into the market at 29 with a higher cap.