Confirmed Signing with Link: [MTL] F Cole Caufield signs extension with the Canadiens (8 years, $7.85M AAV)

[Koivu11]

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[koyvoo]

Great AVV if he can stay relatively healthy

 

[JohanFranzenstein]

Man. Imagine if he doesn't score 40 every year!

 

[LOFIN]

That's a BIG bet

 

[Le Barron de HF]

Awesome deal will age like the MaxPac deal

 

[5cotland]

Ohhh thats steep......

 

[MNRube]

There’s only a few guys on the planet who can finish like him, but this feels like a player-friendly deal.

 

[Captain97]

I'm pretty sure every Habs fan on the board is ecstatic about this.

 

[Colezuki]

Sweetheart deal

 

[NobleSix]

That's a good deal. Internal cap has been set with Nick and Cole now.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Yes! Love this deal!!!! Wow great stuff

 

[TGWL]

Nothing wrong with that if they're getting a goal scorer who can play majority of the games.

 

[Mac n Gs]

Two years off from the cap having a significant jump to where this is only gonna be ~8% of the cap. Goals cost a ton of money, and this seems like it’ll be a very good deal for the Habs

 

[MajorWeber]

About the same AAV as Suzuki.
Not even $16m tied up on the best 2 forwards. I like it

 

[BKarchitect]

Similar to the Blues inking Thomas and Kyrou to essentially identical deals…the Habs already had their in-house extrension benchmark with Suzuki.

It’s certainly a bet but the kid can flat out score goals.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Good deal for both sides.

 

[BKarchitect]

About the same AAV as Suzuki.
Not even $15m tied up on the best 2 forwards. I like it

The question is - can you compete for everything with those two as your two best forwards? Saying you have your “two best forwards under contract long term for $15 million” cannot be judged in a vacuum.

Not to say it’s a bad deal - this is almost the template deal for any young 22-23 year-old who has flashed promise.

 

[Captain97]

Also just an FYI about people worried about injuries. He's only been injured once really.

The other games he missed a bunch of was Covid and got stuck in so quarantine rules. Otherwise it's always been minor stuff.

 

[LOFIN]

Not even $15m tied up on the best 2 forwards. I like it

Tells something about the level of said players as well.

 

[Cenzo_]

That's a great deal. This one with Suzuki's sets the salary level to max 7.85M which is great cap management. Hugues is taking a page of the hated Bruins cap management who have been masters at it

 

[Colezuki]

The question is - can you compete for everything with those two as your two best forwards? Saying you have your “two best forwards under contract long term for $15 million” cannot be judged in a vacuum.

Not to say it’s a bad deal - this is almost the template deal for any young 22-23 year-old who has flashed promise.

Well they made the finals with them as there best forwards already, so I'd say yes

 

[Jee]

Wahoooo

 

[Luck 6]

MTL fans seem happy, so I'm happy for them.

MTL isn't competing now, so locking him up long term before the cap raises makes sense. If the cap raises, and if he scores 40 goals, I would say he would probably get slightly more than 8 mil after a two year bridge.

With that being said, on the other side of the coin, that is a substantial risk for an undersized scoring winger who hasn't really performed at a level to deserve that contract yet. Hopefully betting on the player makes sense.

 

[Iwishihadaspacebar]

That's really, really good and will look better and better with time.

 

[bigdog16]

Its great they have him locked up, but that seems like a lot of money for a player who has a career high of 43 points and hasnt been healthy