Value of: Brock Boeser as a UFA

Prior

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The Wild would likely have some interest to some degree. However his game isn’t the greatest fit for what they need and annual cap hit at more dollars than where Boldy is at probably isn’t in the cards given where some of the new money will need to be allocated.
 

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He hit 40 goals last year, he's not signing anything that doesn't at least start with an 8
The team friendly nature of the cap hit will depend on how much back diving he allows into the contract. He'll most certainly be taking home over $8M salary over the next few seasons, but if he agrees to a contract that scales back the salary as he ages the annual cap hit could be below 8.
 

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The team friendly nature of the cap hit will depend on how much back diving he allows into the contract. He'll most certainly be taking home over $8M salary over the next few seasons, but if he agrees to a contract that scales back the salary as he ages the annual cap hit could be below 8.

He's only 27, I don't think you're going to see a guy in his 20s agree to a structure like that.

This deal will be what defines his professional earnings as a hockey player. It doesn't necessarily mean he's going to be unreasonable, but he's going to look big on that number. Discount deals are for older players
 

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With the final cap number so up in the air it's tough to say for sure. Feel like he's pretty much exactly between DeBrusk and Guentzel as a player so I'll split the difference of their two contracts and go $7.25M at 7 years
 

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He's only 27, I don't think you're going to see a guy in his 20s agree to a structure like that.

This deal will be what defines his professional earnings as a hockey player. It doesn't necessarily mean he's going to be unreasonable, but he's going to look big on that number. Discount deals are for older players
He'll be 28/29 when the new contract kicks on, and on an 8 year deal the final year he'll be 35/36. Shea Theodore's contract is an example of what I'm talking about, and a good value comparison to Boeser. Starts at $9.5M and ends at $5.7M, with a cap hit of $7.425M. That's a 7 year contract though and he's a year older, so to apply the same standard directly to Boeser you add an extra $9.5M year at the start and get a cap hit of $7.68M over 8 years.

Looking at various long term contracts signed for players approaching 30 or older, some or structured like the above while others pay the same for the duration. I feel like that's the biggest factor for a 'team friendly' contract these days, as a GM can easily just pay a guy the same amount right to the end of the deal and chances are won't be around to deal with it then.
 

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he'll likely go home to Minnesota offering the "best offer" or hes taking a discount to stay in vancouver. or there could be a wildcard teams who would throw extra extra incentives for him that it will be hard to say no to.
 

ThatGuy22

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he'll likely go home to Minnesota offering the "best offer" or hes taking a discount to stay in vancouver. or there could be a wildcard teams who would throw extra extra incentives for him that it will be hard to say no to.

If Minnesota and Vancouver offer equal money, I suspect he'd end up in Minnesota.
 

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