Foppa2118
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Losing him would be a big loss. The only issues I've had with Sakic is not signing Nuke and Toews to max deals. In his defence, they hadn't proven themselves. Both will be very expensive now. Hindsight is 20/20.
Yeah I don't think he had much choice in those areas. They had to keep the AAV low with Toews and Nuke didn't have a resume at the time that would have commanded max term.
They still might not be able to give Nuke a long term deal unless it comes with a low AAV.
I thought Compher's $3.5M x 4 year deal might end up being a good target for them, but the more Nuke scores, the higher that AAV is gonna be. He's probably in the $4M x 4 year range now and climbing.