I am definately not saying he's worth 12 million this year. But 7 mil for 2 years and then a payoff of a 12 mil/8 year deal is what should be happening.
My side of the discussion is why in the world the 7 mil deal hasn't been done yet and speculating there being bad blood between the camps.
No Johansen didn't Signle Handedly take them to game 6 but I bet that if he was injured a sweep was possible.
I don't mean to downplay the rest of the team but compared to other stars it isn't far fetched he wouldn't get 90 points with Kane instead of Foligno.
To me Ryan Johansen has an even bigger ceiling than imaginable between 25-30 like top 3 in the league good. And once again
No Malkin on his team
No St Louis on his team
edit I cheer for CBJ every year Johansen or not, nice try but no Atkinson and Dubinsky arn't the 1st line players you make them out to be, its not an insult its analysis.
I am just considering how stacked other teams are with star players and how inflated numbers must get, I understand Jenner, Rychel, Johsnon, and Murray are all getting paid big. I think Toews and Kane set 12 mil as a standard for franchise players, and I think RyJo is a franchise player this year or next year.