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Originally Posted by Bingo
Not to mention things can change in 5 years (6 with the last year on this deal). He goes from 20 to 26, gets established in Edmonton and then chooses to stay.
Kind of like the Gaudreau contract at 6 years, I don't sweat it.
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Maybe he settles down with an Edmonton girl but otherwise not likely to happen. More than a few eastern based teams will be setting up their salary cap situations to offer him a max deal when he's UFA and I simply don't see the best player in the game choosing to play his entire career in Edmonton. If you were born in Calgary and drafted by say the Sabres would you spend your entire career there if you had 30 other options including some world class cities closer to home? Not likely.