TheFridge
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Palat 2.0
Marchessault is a much better player than Palat ever was offensively and Palat is actually younger. The problem with this contract is that you're giving 6 years to a 33-year-old who'll be 34 before the mid-way point of the season.
Crazy to think NJD isn't even really saving on AAV while paying a guy until he's 40. You'd have thought on a 6-year deal they could have gotten the AAV to around 7M. Structuring the contract to give him 10M the first three years and then 5M the last three brings the AAV to 7.5M.