Habs Halifax
Loyal Habs Fan
This is where your reasoning is inaccurate. Each team is guaranteed 7 years of service per the CBA. Anything after that and you're buying UFA years and are hardly a guaranteed buy. What that means is the least you have from LD is 4 more years after this. After that you're looking at the same situation as you are with Faulk. LD will command 6 mill as all the other high end forwards in EDM did if not more. So Faulk will be cheaper for the next 4 years.
Your searching here man... Oilers have two options with Drai. 1) Sign him to a 3 year bridge deal and then 8 years deal after that. 2) Sign him right away this off season to 8 years (buying 4 years of RFA and 4 years or UFA). Regardless, it's more than likely a 8 year deal that will be signed. Just depends if a bridge contract is signed in between or not. So that's... 8-11 years of team control.
Your really going to compare contract situation and RFA years remaining between Drai and Faulk as being the same? No disrespect, but I feel your searching real hard to disagree which is not making you good!
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