Who would turn down a guaranteed $7.4m 9 years from now?
It doesn’t make sense for Jarvis. You lose the investment potential of your money, and you lose inflation. He was getting paid regardless.
9 years from now is a long time and a lot can happen. His play could fall off a cliff, he could get injured. The Canes were most likely not able to give him a higher AAV/bigger contract over an 8 year stretch without the deferment so he's locking himself in for a guarantee of millions 9 years from now.
Not without addressing their D. They have some capspace which should accrue into enough to make a significant add at the TDL, but they will need to add a piece or 2 on the back end and obviously some luck with health.
Bedard is signing next summer. So unless he puts up 130 points this year, he’s not getting 15 million.
We’ll be talking about this ad nauseam in the late spring/early summer I’m sure. But I wonder if he signs an 8 year deal or takes the Auston Matthews path of taking shorter term deals and bending his team over with each deal.
if there's one contract you don't mind getting bent over on it's bedard's. obviously you'd prefer not getting bent over, but at least with bedard it wouldn't feel so bad.
