If RNH's AAV demand starts with a "7", then I don't want him back.
$6.5m x 6 years is my ceiling on the offer. If he wants to be here, he should be happy with a raise at all given the flat cap. He's a good player, but he has massively benefitted from having the best C linemate(s) in the league for the past couple seasons.
If some team wants to pay him $7m+ to be a top 6 C without elite, art-ross contending linemates, they will be sorely disappointed when he only produces 55 points. We saw for YEARS that that's what he was capable of before being stapled to 29 or 97.