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Originally Posted by Imported_Aussie
It is a good idea in theory, but no team has bridged a guy with the numbers Tkachuk has, especially in this contract year. In fact, Larkin getting a 5 year deal is one of the shortest deals for any player who was a 1st round pick with a contract year better approaching PPG (Larkin was 0.77).
Players who were bridged were more in the 0.5 PPG range (Teravainen, Lindholm, JT Miller, etc.)
Perhaps a 5 year deal, trying to tie Tkachuk to the Gio cap may be the closest to a bridge we see.
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Yeah and that's the downside, it might be interpreted by Tkachuk as disrespect given that its so outside the norm. Just seems to make a lot of sense from the team perspective to try and preserve as much cap as possible for our window. And I'd want to stay away from a 5 year deal because to the extent of my understanding that would take him to UFA.