Confirmed with Link: MacKinnon extended! 8 years, 12.6 AAV

[Metallo]

No hometown discount. I find it pricey considering the flat cap. Oh well, let's win Cups now and worry about the future later.

Also weird that the NMC on his next contract applies retroactively to today.

 

[cccoltsicehockey]

It's going to be a bad contract at some point but not much you can do.

Our window really is the next 5 years at best for another cup. I think for 4 or 5 of those it won't be bad. No one cares about the last 3 if we can grab another cup in this window.

 

[avalanche_country]

Just glad it’s done and under 13. I just bought his jersey so really glad it’s done, my 10 year old will also be very excited ha.

 

[Avsboy]

Dude literally works in a Timmy Hos in the off season. Greasy

I wouldn't call Timmy Hos greasy, more doughy. Maybe he can get quinoa on the menu

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

Our window really is the next 5 years at best for another cup. I think for 4 or 5 of those it won't be bad. No one cares about the last 3 if we can grab another cup in this window.

That's true. That's how I see it too. 4-5 seasons it will be good and then it will hurt us, but most likely meaningless at that point. (The whole team trending down).

No hometown discount. I find it pricey considering the flat cap. Oh well, let's win Cups now and worry about the future later.

Also weird that the NMC on his next contract applies retroactively to today.

Hopefully we get couple Cups out of this. That's all we wish. Hah

 

[jaisen73]

No hometown discount. I find it pricey considering the flat cap. Oh well, let's win Cups now and worry about the future later.

Also weird that the NMC on his next contract applies retroactively to today.

Signing the extension in and of itself is a bit of a discount, especially when it's entirely possible some team would offer close to 13 million per next summer, particularly if the cap goes up (as it likely will, even if not by a massive amount).

 

[kchan9]

Nate Dogg, Avs for life! LFG!!!!!!

 

[Pokecheque]

I knew it'd get done, much sooner than I expected TBH. Great news.

I DGAF if it doesn't age well, and the latter part of the deal likely won't. Who cares, the number 29 will very likely be hanging in the rafters in the next decade or so, and the guy played a major role in making this team a Cup winner again. He also appears to be by all accounts a pretty decent person.

 

[Avs_19]

"Flat cap" exists for what, another two years? It would've meant taking less (again) on a long-term deal only for the cap to jump and then watch everyone else get paid? No chance.

 

[Vaslof]

Signing the extension in and of itself is a bit of a discount, especially when it's entirely possible some team would offer close to 13 million per next summer, particularly if the cap goes up (as it likely will, even if not by a massive amount).

Every player that re-signs to a team without testing Free Agency likely could have made more money if they did. Anyway it changes person to person what they consider a home discount.

 

[SaltySkywalker]

 

[Avs_19]

Look at Nate looking out for the team here. Such a team player.

 

[Andrew Wiggin]

It's fine especially if they know the cap will go up substantially at some point but definitely restricts the team for a year or two. I just didn't think he was that caught up in the money and it is certainly more than his closest comparison which is Barkov. The fact that it meant so much to be the highest player paid rather than a fair deal which would have been closer to $10 or $11 makes me respect him a little less but I can't blame someone for maximizing their salary after a cup win. It is just he talked such a team perspective whenever it came up just seems disingenuous now. $12.6/yr is on the high end and the agent must have made the case he is clearly above the huberdeau, Barkov, Gaudreau bunch because that is the range I would expect from the club perspective. I also don't think McFarland is nearly as hard nosed as Sakic.

 

[kchan9]

It's going to be a bad contract at some point but not much you can do.

Sheesh...quit pouting. That AAV for a proven generational talent that just won us the cup. How's that bad at some point when the cap is going up

 

[Tyson]

Congratulations Avs fans on getting MacKinnon signed.

Colorado can boast on having the best Dman and Forward in the league.

 

[Muffin]

It's going to be a bad contract at some point but not much you can do.

The salary cap is going to be well past 100M at that point.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

The only part of this contract I dislike is the lockout year switch in structure.



If there’s a lockout in 16/17 the Avs would be on the hook for any signing bonus money but not actual salary. Mackinnon’s camp likely didn’t like this part of the contract. I feel had they given him all signing bonus money that year he may have been willing the shave a few mil on the entire deal for that added security.


Nowhere near a big deal by any means. I just find it odd that the Avs cared more about their actual dollars spent than they did AAV. I guess after the Jokic deal and now this one they had to give in to Kroenke a little.

If I were running the show I absolutely would have made that year the biggest signing bonus of them all in trade for some shaved AAV but it’s also not my money. Cmac is a pretty smart guy. I’d have to assume this is a Kroenke thing.

 

[ASmileyFace]

It's going to be a bad contract at some point but not much you can do.

I honestly don't think it will. 8 years from now who knows where the cap will be and even if MacK is a 60-70 point player we will have gotten his best years at a reasonable price.

 

[Chiarelli]

12.6 makes so much sense in hindsight. Double his previous AAV and makes him the highest paid currently.

 

[jfc64]

Also lockout proof

Now the other teams must LOOK OUT for MacK. Ring is proof.

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

Sheesh...quit pouting. That AAV for a proven generational talent that just won us the cup. How's that bad at some point when the cap is going up

Maybe it came out as too negative. I am very happy he stays with Colorado for the next eight seasons. There's no way we could replace him. Having player like him in our team is special.

MacK will do everything he can to win couple more Stanley Cups!

 

[expatriatedtexan]

So glad this is done. Not that I doubted it would get done, but it's just good to have it done and be able to just concentrate on the season without having to worry.

Gotta think that early in the summer when Nate had that initial meeting with Joe and CMac that he pretty much let them know where he was sitting at on AAV, because they were able to solidly navigate the summer without him having actually put pen to paper previously.

What a great deal for Nate. It's rich, richer than I like but I absolutely understand that it's not in reality, especially if the cap does rise more significantly than I think...which is by not much for the next 4 years. I love that he got the vast majority of it guaranteed with the signing bonuses. I think the last player to do that or try that with the Avs was ROR, right?

 

[Richard88]

Lol @Balthazar, looks like I was right about $12.6m

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[Vaslof]

The only part of this contract I dislike is the lockout year switch in structure.



If there’s a lockout in 16/17 the Avs would be on the hook for any signing bonus money but not actual salary. Mackinnon’s camp likely didn’t like this part of the contract. I feel had they given him all signing bonus money that year he may have been willing the shave a few mil on the entire deal for that added security.


Nowhere near a big deal by any means. I just find it odd that the Avs cared more about their actual dollars spent than they did AAV. I guess after the Jokic deal and now this one they had to give in to Kroenke a little.

If I were running the show I absolutely would have made that year the biggest signing bonus of them all in trade for some shaved AAV but it’s also not my money. Cmac is a pretty smart guy. I’d have to assume this is a Kroenke thing.

Yea I agree, it would only hurt the owners pockets. I suppose all the owners might be in it together to make it harder for the players to do a lockout. If they don't lose out on money then no reason not to stick to their demands.

 

[The Moops]

Ehh, about $250k overpaid. Would have preferred ONE HUNDRED MILLION and 550 thousand USD.

Damn you beat me to it