I get that. I'm saying that Bert is currently worth $4M, not $6M. He's a middle six winger who happens to play well with a couple of better players. A nice asset, but nothing special.
And there's no guarantee that the cap will be going up at all for a few years, let alone drastically.
There also isn't also any quarantee, that stock market would never go up. But it goes. And you can speculate it goes, because it's most probable it will go.
This corona-shit is told be over at next summer, NHL will raise from that hole in one plus season, after one minus season. And then the big TV-deal years are hitting in. Just like planned earlier. The rise just will happen from lower levels that 88M at 2023, thanks to Corona.
I could see Bertuzzi taking a long-term deal for 6.15M 6-7 years, and being the highest caphit (not paid) player...
...for two weeks, until Mantha will sign his 6.2M 3-year deal.