No to Huby at 29 but yes to Rhino?
We will see where we are after this season.
Yeah I think we'll have to see. Harder to evaluate Reinhart because he had a great season mostly on line 3, while his other seasons in a top-line role have been mediocre.
You can look at a guy like Kadri, mostly mediocre seasons before a big season as a lower line guy. He's definitely not being paid like a top-line guy at 7x$7M, even if there's some more age-related factors there and it was reported he had an offer for a higher contract at I think $8-8.5M. Then there's the tier of guys this past season that are just below Reinhart, like Palat, Copp, Trocheck, Strome, etc. that all just signed for $5-6M.
Depends too on if there may be a big jump in salary cap projected for 24/25. If say the projection points to $90M, then add 10% to all those numbers above.
So given all that and assuming Reino continues to do his thing, I could see 6x$7-8M being a fair deal. If cap doesn't move much, closer to $7M. The more years he wants, the lower AAV I'd want to give and vice versa.
Comparing to Huberdeau, Huber was looking for max term while also being older (it's actually Huby at 30 vs. Reino at 29) and he wanted to get paid like a top line-driver when he was a second-line beneficiary and powerplay specialist. I bet they were looking for same contract as Barkov with a NMC, which to me is a hard pass.
