Devils731
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- Jun 23, 2008
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With the way second contracts go, I want him getting paid for 8 years on his second deal and then have his mega breakout afterwards.In a lot of cases this is true, but for Nemec and the Devils I'm not sure it is, especially if Luke Hughes's deal starts this season. It's hard for a pick as high as Nemec to not get paid on a second deal.
Defenseman generally develop a little slower than forwards so I think it’s even more likely you want to get a good defenseman’s ELC over ASAP.
I don’t want to speed up his UFA leverage though, just in case we go bridge deal, so I want to keep him under 40 games.
It’s not ideal that Luke and Nemec would both burn their ELC year this year but I’ll take that less ideal for the chance to lock in some savings over 8 years.