Speculation: Gaudreau seeking $8M annually on new deal with Flames

[Drij]

Why? Get ready to fork over 15 million for mcdavid when the time comes.

Smiling now?

except no one can get that much lol

 

[mouser]

Connor mcdavid will be the first max contract player in the league. Period.

Seeing as how the league has already had a max contract player, I'm going to predict McDavid won't be the first.

 

[tempest2i]

Seeing as how the league has already had a max contract player, I'm going to predict McDavid won't be the first.

Ovi?

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

except no one can get that much lol

Not really a stretch to see the cap at $75M in two years, in which the max of 20% would be $15M.

 

[MAHJ71]

Is this thread about who the best player on Team North America was or about Gaudreau's contract... or both?

 

[Beninho*]

He's not a center, he's < 6'1", and he's not Canadian, no way he's ever considered best player in the world. Whether he deserves to be or not.

Very true

 

[East Coast Icestyle]

Very true

Not really since Patrick Kane doesn't fit any of those and all season people wouldn't shut up about how is was the best player in the world

 

[Boumsalot]

I hope he don't pull a trouba

 

[Del Preston]

Ovi?

Brad Richards in 2006 was the first (not for term, but money, anyway).

 

[JarvisFunk]

Not really since Patrick Kane doesn't fit any of those and all season people wouldn't shut up about how is was the best player in the world

Dont spoil their pity party

 

[Not Sure]

Dont spoil their pity party

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2130395

 

[Honour Over Glory]

7m sounds fair, but between 6.7-6.3? Lol, good luck, also good luck with 8m.

 

[Claypool]

Trade him in a package to Tampa for Kucherov and Bishop.

 

[King In The North]

I love how many people in the first few pages said "$8 mill is too high" but after seeing him for the first time are now "give him a blank cheque!"

 

[Johnny Hoxville]

I love how many people in the first few pages said "$8 mill is too high" but after seeing him for the first time are now "give him a blank cheque!"

Pretty much. People that watch him regularly are aware of what kind of talent we are talking about here.

 

[Curufinwe]

Going by CF, if Calgary gave him $7.3m AAV then that would take them almost to the cap ceiling, and then they could maximize their cap space by putting Smid on LTIR at 5:01pm on Monday, October 11th.

https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/flames

 

[InfinityIggy]

Going by CF, if Calgary gave him $7.3m AAV then that would take them almost to the cap ceiling, and then they could maximize their cap space by putting Smid on LTIR at 5:01pm on Monday, October 11th.

https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/flames

It sounds like a near certainty Smid is going on LTIR.

 

[tempest2i]

Brad Richards in 2006 was the first (not for term, but money, anyway).

Really? I never knew.

 

[Johnny Hoxville]

It sounds like a near certainty Smid is going on LTIR.

Can he retire and they just pay him his money to be a scout?

 

[Remember2004]

Almost half of us weren't willing to pay him the 8mil and play hard ball with Trevliving but now we heard his contract demands might have increased we wanna pay him the 8mil LOL

 

[Kilted Yaksmen]

Can he retire and they just pay him his money to be a scout?

It would be deemed cap circumvention. No scout makes anything close to $3.5m.

 

[vannuckles]

8M for an undersized winger would be brutal, no matter how good he is. playoffs are a different animal..

Don't say this to any Calgary fans.....they ganged up on me like a pack of wolves, for saying the same thing.

 

[Mashed Potatoes]

Don't say this to any Calgary fans.....they ganged up on me like a pack of wolves, for saying the same thing.

Tyler Johnson second last playoff.
Was a beast.

 

[Curufinwe]

8M for an undersized winger would be brutal, no matter how good he is. playoffs are a different animal..

Patrick Kane is an undersized winger with 121 playoff points in 123 games.

 

[vannuckles]

Was referring to above posters there

But you Quoted his post? No way was Little Johnny, N/A's best player. Not by a long shot.