But think how funny it's going to be when they don't win a thing during those years!
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But think how funny it's going to be when they don't win a thing during those years!
Mr. Canucklehead
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Whether you’re the Oilers or another team, you give them whatever it takes to sign them, even if it’s the max. It’s an especially big no brainer for the Oilers given their history of struggling to retain players.
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Absolutely.
$25-30 million for 2 guys that can score a combined 230-280 points a season and be a PPG+ in the playoffs?
What do you really gain by letting these guys go for the sake of cap room?
Mr. Canucklehead
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If you're not going to give two of the greatest players of all time, nevermind the current league, the max...then who will you give it to?
If they walk up to you and say "hey, I'll sign today for max cap and term", you try not to break your ankles running to get the pen and paper to sign them.
What is the allowed maximum contract, term and cap per year, right now anyways?
And I'm guessing it'll have NMC plus buyout prevention options?
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strattonius
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They are an incredible duo but if they both get the max AAV allowed it doesn't put them in a great spot. The two best forwards in hockey surrounded by fringe depth hasn't been working, and that's not even with McDavid, Draisaitl and Bouchard mega deals they are all due to get.
McD + Drai + Bouchard is likely going to take up 40m in cap space.... for 3 players...
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Of the two, there seemed to be the most smoke around him rather than McDavid. If he is in fact opting to say, that's terrific news for the Oilers and, more specifically, the city of Edmonton, who watched pretty much every good player they developed walk away from them in the 90s/00s except for a hardcore, team-first guys like Ryan Smyth.
Not that they deserve this abundance of riches, especially with their most recently personnel decisions, but I digress.
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Draisaitl will more than earn his contract if the league continues give its acceptance for him to take out the oppositions best forward with an elbow to the head. And you don't hear much from the media about it. For f**ks sake that weasel Ron McLean was still bitching about Burrows years later.
As much as I would like to see that, would Drai actually ask for max even if it's to stay in Edmonton? Both Matthews and MacK took considerably less than max even though they could easily ask for it.
Well there is no reason why he doesn’t ask for like 15, what’s the Oilers going to do, let him walk or trade him? lol
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I think there's a fair bit of money doing endorsement deals in Toronto. And then there's living in Alberta
am i nuts in not doing max for drai
OK thank you
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I remember the days when Draisaitl's contract was considered bad. Wasn't me, but it was. Those were some weird times.
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I have your gold medal Zippy!
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Kings fans must be hating this..Another demonstration of rushing the rebuild, the Kings are worse off than they were two years ago.
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Well they have RNH, and Hyman locked up at discounts for a couple of years too which should help.
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