notDatsyuk
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- Jul 20, 2018
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Paying that for a player who will be your 1C for several years is fair value. Playing that for someone who will be your 2C after the first year isn't, and was the root cause of all the other overpayments.Tavares was overpaid by around a million but he was the top UFA in his prime, his contract was fair value. Whether he actually lived up to it after his first season is very much debatable. I would say we only got our money's worth in his first year.
The Matthews & Marner deals were absolutely atrocious in hindsight. They got much more than their comparable peers, they got less term and all of the clauses. Dubas got absolutely bent over.