Confirmed with Link: Avs Re-sign Cale Makar to 6-Year Deal

[larueskee]

This is a good deal for both sides. Imagine yourself at 22 years old set for life and another big contract at 28. Get Cale to marry a local gal, have them build the house of their dreams and no worries. Just don't run him out of town for bad offsides or something.

 

[Richard Doll]

Because of this, Sakic doesn't have to think about Cale's negotiations, it's over, he knows the number.

Now he can truly talk shop with Landy/ other FA's.

 

[Avsavsavsavsavs]

This is a good deal for both sides. Imagine yourself at 22 years old set for life and another big contract at 28. Get Cale to marry a local gal, have them build the house of their dreams and no worries. Just don't run him out of town for bad offsides or something.

yeah but that particular offisdes was really really bad (and lazy) Ian.

 

[The Pwnerer]

We'll make Makar captain before his 6 years are up.

The more I think about it, I think Sakic's big goal was to keep that aav down. Of course, he could've went 8 yrs for 10-11 million per but he knows the window is now so he's going to field his best possible lineup each and every year. By keeping Makars aav reasonable he should have enough to play with to fix up other team weaknesses. The 1 to 2+ million savings on that can be huge down the line.

 

[Balthazar]

Surely people who understand why Sakic doesn't want to go 8 years for Landeskog should understand if Makar doesn't want to go 8 years.

I fully understand why Makar wouldn't want to go 8 years. However, bridge contracts exist ffs.

You don't care if he wants 13M AAV after his bridge contract, you just sign him for the rest of his relevant career. He'd be only 25. Then at 32-33 if he wants to walk then yeah, sure.

The ultimate goal here is for the team that drafts the player to get as many prime years as possible. We won't be drafting another Makar anytime soon.

 

[sethro109]

I fully understand why Makar wouldn't want to go 8 years. However, bridge contracts exist ffs.

You don't care if he wants 13M AAV after of his bridge contract, you just sign him for the rest of his relevant career. He'd be only 25. Then at 32-33 if he wants to walk then yeah, sure.

The ultimate goal here is for the team that drafts the player to get as many prime years as possible. We won't be drafting another Makar anytime soon.

That would just lead into another RoR situation.

 

[MaKarter]

I fully understand why Makar wouldn't want to go 8 years. However, bridge contracts exist ffs.

You don't care if he wants 13M AAV after of his bridge contract, you just sign him for the rest of his relevant career. He'd be only 25. Then at 32-33 if he wants to walk then yeah, sure.

The ultimate goal here is for the team that drafts the player to get as many prime years as possible. We won't be drafting another Makar anytime soon.

Sure just sign Makar and MacKinnon 13mil per year each in 3 years. What could go wrong?

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

I fully understand why Makar wouldn't want to go 8 years. However, bridge contracts exist ffs.

You don't care if he wants 13M AAV after his bridge contract, you just sign him for the rest of his relevant career. He'd be only 25. Then at 32-33 if he wants to walk then yeah, sure.

The ultimate goal here is for the team that drafts the player to get as many prime years as possible. We won't be drafting another Makar anytime soon.

This is a sure fire way for Mack or Makar to have to walk. No way you can sign Makar to 13M in 2-3 years time and Mack to whatever he is going to get in 2 years. We'd be the Oilers 2.0 at that point.

 

[obZen]

Avs fans: get Makar signed! Time to go all in!

*Makar signs for lower aav to maximize cap space in order to go all in

Avs fans: no, not like that.

 

[Vaslof]

Yea so all the attractive markets can have the good players and less attractive markets can suck forever. Got it.

Salary cap still exists.

 

[TruePowerSlave]

Just like Rantanen you wish the contract would have been more than 6 years. Still we got our big horse signed at a solid cap hit.

They better not let Rants or Makar get anywhere near UFA though, no Landeskog/Stastny situations. You re-sign them immediately after year 5 ends or make a trade if the player wants to wait and see.

 

[Avs44]

Salary cap still exists.

The sad part of the salary cap — when you reach the point you can’t even re-sign talent you drafted and developed.

 

[Balthazar]

Salary cap still exists.

It's really, really tough to get good UFA's for unatractive markets. The only way these teams can have good players is by drafting them....team control is very very important and the more years the better for the league and for the fans.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

I fully understand why Makar wouldn't want to go 8 years. However, bridge contracts exist ffs.

You don't care if he wants 13M AAV after his bridge contract, you just sign him for the rest of his relevant career. He'd be only 25. Then at 32-33 if he wants to walk then yeah, sure.

The ultimate goal here is for the team that drafts the player to get as many prime years as possible. We won't be drafting another Makar anytime soon.

Heres the thing, it takes two to tango. From the team perspective you want to lock up those prime years, but the player may want options. Sure, sign him to the bridge deal, what’s to say he doesn’t want another short contract after that to bring him to FA? So then you end up with roughly the same AAV, and you get to add in another (possibly contentious) negotiation.

 

[JWK]

Well deserved

 

[RoyIsALegend]

f***, he’s signing with the Flames in 6 years.

Little bastard tricked us.

 

[SoftMittsHardSticks]

Here's the thing:

Makar burned an ELC year and then signed for 6 years.

That's no different than Matthews who played 3 seasons on his ELC and then signed for 5 years.

That's only 8 years of team control for a player that they drafted and it's shitty.

Or you could think of it like this: the best players in the world have to wait 8 years MINIMUM in order to have any control over where they live and work (in a field thats average career length is 5 years). If you get stuck in an inept organization, your only way out is to essentially throw a hissy fit until the organization decides you're too much of a media circus to keep around.

 

[Freudian]

Wonder if it's just randomness that he (or his people) chose a picture with him and Landeskog.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Wonder if it's just randomness that he (or his people) chose a picture with him and Landeskog.

No Nate, clearly a rift between the teams two best players

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

Wonder if it's just randomness that he (or his people) chose a picture with him and Landeskog.

and Kadri

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

The more I think about it, the more I like this deal.

At some point you have to sacrifice a little bit of the long term future to help this team win now and the 6 year term probably dropped the AAV about as low as it could go.

Forget UFA/RFA years. Getting Makar for 6 years at $9M is really good for the Avs.

Colorado will be a completely different team in 6 years anyways. That’s a long ways away.

 

[AvsFan29]

 

[GoNordiquesGo]

Fair, balanced deal. No Sakic home run by any stretch, but extremely satisfying fair deal. Does wonder for a relationship. Fits into what seems to be Sakic's view of the window, i.e. more than the 2 years before Mack's new contract. Didn't want to go bridge 2-3 years all in and then massive increase. But unable to get 8 years at a major discount, which is very understandable from Makar's point of view. Fair, balanced deal. No fleecing, benefits for both camps. Good job, move to the next signing now - Landeskog at max $7M please

 

[NOTENOUGHJTCGOALS]

Makar's UFA years are that much more valuable than Chabot or Heskainen?

This allows them to comfortably go 8 for the UFA contract. Assuming the CBA doesn't change. It would lock up Makar from 28 to 36. Off prime years but you'd still get 4 very good years. If you sign a guy for 8 years at 30 you're may only get 2 good years.

 

[frog]

OK please sign now landeskog!