Evans probably told his agent to just make a deal because this is a ridiculously good bargain for the Habs. The 5-game win streak and the Dach injury kind of put things in place for Evans to be re-signed imo.
I kinda feel bad for him though because he could've gotten much more on the open market and this was his last chance at a big payday. It shows that he really wanted to stay.
Great job by Hughes, let's see if Evans keep up his play now that he got paid.
*Now that I think of it, I hope that he asked for a NMC cause it would suck for him that take that huge of a hometown discount just to get traded 2 years in