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Originally Posted by Jacks
Whether Drai's contract seems good now or not means nothing. At the time of signing his peers, who were/are better than him, were signing in the 6-7M range. MacKinnon, Gaudreau, Pastrnak, etc were decent deals then Edm overpays badly and inflates the market as usual. They have a long history of screwing up the RFA process with all the 6x6's and the ridiculous offer sheets to Penner and Vanek. Tor is just as much to blame, after the fact, with the contracts to Nylander and Matthews.
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I don’t buy it. Mackinnon and Gaudreau were signed the year before Gaudreau for 6 years and Nate for 7. So shorter terms and less UFA years.
Pastrnak signed around the same time for 2 years less and had a close season but was still less productive then Drai. Again oilers got 2 more UFA years.