Confirmed Signing with Link: [CGY] Flames sign Matthew Tkachuk (3 years, $7M AAV)

[trick9]

Just for 3 years? Odd.

 

[super6646]

Just for 3 years? Odd.

Didn’t have a choice with the comparables and the crappy cap situation.

 

[gn2007]

Why does capgeek show 7.5 aav?

 

[Viqsi]

Just to try to nip a silly thing in the bud right away:

CapFriendly is showing the AAV as $7.5m/year. They cite a Bobby Mac tweet for it - but that tweet gives the AAV as $7m/year. So if anyone insists $7.5m/year is correct, they need to be informed that it's evidently a tpyo on the part of CapFriendly. They'll probably fix it soon.

EDIT:

Why does capgeek show 7.5 aav?

Damn, wasn't fast enough.

Click on their "source" link for that contract and you'll see what I was talking about above.

 

[Kaako Kappo]

Surely the rest will sign now?

 

[robertmac43]

Going to be painful in 3 years from now. I'm just happy Marner came with the term at this point.

 

[These Are The Days]

How the **** is Tkachuk getting paid more than Point.

Tampa tax breaks of course. Have you seen what the rate is in Calgary?

 

[DFF]

$7 mil for only 70 points? This makes Draisaitl’s $8.5 mil look like roadway robbery!

He doesn't need mcdavid for those points

8.5 and can't carry your own line

 

[Merrrlin]

He's not.

Frank Seravelli says Point is making $1.02M MORE Net.

Net is all anyone cares about. It's in your pocket.

Points actual bank account is growing at a rate faster than Matthew's. That simple.

Do not bring up taxes and a Lightning player in the same thread...you will summon the demon from their board

 

[Viqsi]

Meanwhile, Winnipeg.

And also Colorado, but, really, Winnipeg.

 

[Subway Schenn]

Makes Marner's contract slightly more palpable.... now we wait for Rantanen.

 

[WillTheThrill]

Makes Marner's contract slightly more palpable.... now we wait for Rantanen.

As a leaf fan I’m just happy we don’t have to go through this again in 3 years like most of these guys will.

 

[Volica]

Does no one understand that this guy'll be RFA by the end of this? Calgary could essentially control Matthew Tkachuk for the next 11 years now

 

[TheBeastCoast]

All these guys getting teams to kick the can down the road 3 years while still getting paid...dear god the next contracts lol

 

[Deen]

Does no one understand that this guy'll be RFA by the end of this? Calgary could essentially control Matthew Tkachuk for the next 11 years now

Not sure that's even the case anymore. These guys go where they want to. If Gaudreau leaves, I see Tkachuk leaving honestly. Our window to win one is three years now.

 

[ffh]

He doesn't need mcdavid for those points

8.5 and can't carry your own line

Is their any nhl calibre wingers to carry in Edmonton. Dreiseitl is 1st line on every team other then Edmonton and Pitts.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Does no one understand that this guy'll be RFA by the end of this? Calgary could essentially control Matthew Tkachuk for the next 11 years now

Or he accepts a QO and goes directly to free agency. That is some kind of logical jump to act like Calgary "essentially" has Tkatchuk for the next 11 years.

 

[A1LeafNation]

Does no one understand that this guy'll be RFA by the end of this? Calgary could essentially control Matthew Tkachuk for the next 11 years now

Tkachuk can easily take his QO right into UFA. 3 year deals give the players all the leverage. Leafs did not want this with Marner for sure.

 

[kp61c]

more than point. damn, point got owned big time.

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

He's not.

Frank Seravelli says Point is making $1.02M MORE Net.

Net is all anyone cares about. It's in your pocket.

Points actual bank account is growing at a rate faster than Matthew's. That simple.

Would love to see Frank Seravelli's calculations on that.

Hell the CapFriendly tax calculator, which basically assumes a worst case tax scenario for the player, says Point's same contract in Calgary would net $-440k.

I swear these tax exaggerations get worse by the day.

ETA: Unless Frank is talking about over the term of the deal, which is a bit misleading.

 

[Deen]

Guess we are keeping Frolik and Brodie and making another run at it. We won the Western Conference last year so there's worse scenarios.

 

[mydnyte]

I'm thinking Laine is going to want $8.5 on a bridge based on this.
...yea, he had an 'off' season but he still potted 30 in a rubbish season (though almost all the goals were in 1 month)

 

[Orfieus]

Are we really going to do this with every new contract from here on out

There is still Rantanen

 

[Advanced stats]

Why bring up Nylande

Well let's see...cause they're from the same draft, same age, drafted 1? spot apart, put up similar amount of points in similar amount of games.

That seems legit, no?

 

[beowulf]

Makes the Point deal look that much better.