Speculation: Evan Bouchard asking $11M AAV on his next deal

[Oilslick941611]

soooo 4.6 mil for Bouchard?

 

[nerevarine]

Naaahhh... He'll take the McDrai hometown discount, 8x10.75.

Just to be clear, you're implying those players are overpaid?

 

[ORRFForever]

Good Lord, that is way too much.

Did they see his game against the Leafs?

 

[UrbanImpact]

Why isnt this done yet! Please Edmonton make it happen!!!

 

[thefutures]

soooo 4.6 mil for Bouchard?

That's broberg money

 

[Oilslick941611]

That's broberg money

Exactly. He wants 11. He isn’t even getting half of that with his play

 

[Slats432]

He will bridge to get his game under control. 1 year at $5-6?

 

[Artemi Panarin]

but if his defensive game develops a bit more,

 

[LordZapp]

Trade him

 

[ManofSteel55]

Exactly. He wants 11. He isn’t even getting half of that with his play

He was asking 11 because he was coming off an amazing year and very good playoff run. If he continues to play like a donkey this year, his bargaining power goes down, and he will get way less than what he initially wanted.

 

[HuGort]

Oilers will lock him up, 11 million is reasonable

 

[Brookbank]

The Oilers should consider a trade. See what's out there.

 

[Realm]

Imagine if he didnt get lucky with 6 seconds left and Marner walks down and wins it at the buzzer. What an terrible period of hockey.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

trade him and bring in a cheap strictly offensive dman for the PP

a massive long term deal for Bouchard will be brutal

 

[mphmiles]

Exactly. He wants 11. He isn’t even getting half of that with his play

Unfortunately for Edmonton, players and teams have basically negotiated that NHL defensemen get paid mostly on points and minutes played per game. (Which is why guys like Nurse and Jones got paid so much, despite it being almost universally agreed that they weren't top tier defensemen at the time)

And as long as Bouchard is running Edmonton's power play, he's going to play a lot, and put up a ton of points. He'll have them by the balls in negotiations and there's not a lot they can do about it, if they want to keep him.

 

[kp61c]

they gave nurse 9 m till the sun runs out. A new shiny toy that can chip in offensivly for 11m? Hell yeah.

 

[viceroy]

Just to be clear, you're implying those players are overpaid?

The f you on about amigo? I just mean all they're asking for is 99 cents on the dollar.

 

[AcerComputer]

EDM should trade him for Broberg straight up

 

[dirtydanglez]

11m seems less crazy with a $97m cap

 

[JustAHabFan]

The way he played against the Habs today, there is no way that he is worth 11M a year.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

I'll preface this by saying that we always see this. The bigger number comes out and then when the player and team negotiate something different, the player looks like a great guy for compromising. He'll sign for higher than Nurse, but lower than 11M.

It doesn't matter if he is only 11M as a product of McDavid/Draisaitl because they intend to re-sign McDavid and they have already signed Draisaitl. If they could easily replace him with someone else who could also be a product of them at a lower cap, they would have done so. Don't mess with what's working.

The cap is going to be 100M-110M very soon.

Another factor is that if Draisaitl, Bouchard, and McDavid take up all the cap space it will help the team because they usually use cap space to their detriment. It will stop them from signing Matt Rempe to a 5M offer sheet or something.