Confirmed Signing with Link: [COL] Nathan MacKinnon re-signs (7 years, $6.3M AAV)
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It will be interesting where they fall.
Gaudreau has definitely produced better, but also had time to develop in college and is 2 years older.
Monahan produced 159pts in 237 games regular season while MacKinnon has 153pts in 218. (quick math is hopefully correct)
Factor in Barkov and Scheifele, and all those guys should be within a few hundred thousand of each other.
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Prime UFA years are going to cost you. It's not like adding a year to Stamkos, which is more security for the player and lowers the AAV for the team.
We don't know because we aren't privy to the negotiations. We have no way of knowing. Maybe the player thought that 8th year was more valuable. Maybe his team didn't want to commit to the eighth year. He's now set him self up to be a UFA at 27. Another massive contract coming his way. Makes sense for the player not to go with 8.
ELC = 3 years (completed)
+ 7 year deal (4 remaining RFA years + 3 UFA years)
FYI: He turns 21 in September
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Very good contract for the Avalanche.
There's no realistic long term risk in this deal, an RFA with arb years or a UFA with MacKinnon's current production would probably get 6M this off season. The risk is all in the short term. The Avalanche gave up the extra 2M of cap space they might have gained in the short term on a bridge deal in order to get a possibly bargain 3 years down the line when MacKinnon would have been arbitration eligible and will have 4 years left on this deal.
With the BS that Avalanche fans have had to put up with concerning Ryan O'Reilly's contracts and now Tyson Barrie possibly only getting a short term extension through arbitration, getting the team's franchise player locked down for 7 years should be considered a huge positive.
There's no realistic long term risk in this deal, an RFA with arb years or a UFA with MacKinnon's current production would probably get 6M this off season. The risk is all in the short term. The Avalanche gave up the extra 2M of cap space they might have gained in the short term on a bridge deal in order to get a possibly bargain 3 years down the line when MacKinnon would have been arbitration eligible and will have 4 years left on this deal.
With the BS that Avalanche fans have had to put up with concerning Ryan O'Reilly's contracts and now Tyson Barrie possibly only getting a short term extension through arbitration, getting the team's franchise player locked down for 7 years should be considered a huge positive.
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Mack has played 3 seasons in the NHL already. Players are UFA eligible after playing 7 seasons. So Mack has 4 more seasons until he is eligible for UFA. 7 year extension, minus 4 years to UFA, equals...
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Colorado doesn't seem to do 8 year deals. 7 for Landeskog, and EJ. I'm thrilled to get 7, I was worried it would end up at 5.
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I like this deal a lot. I'm a big fan of Mack, and at 6.3M it's going to look amazing in a few years time. 
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His ELC ran out. That's three of the seven years until he is a UFA.
This deal is seven years. So the first four years are RFA years and the last three are UFA years.
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Don't you love it when people so confidently say something that is so completely wrong?
