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You left out that Weber received a 66% raise in salary. And is a defender, also that he signed again as an RFA for 13.10% of the cap the very next year.Lol Matthews and Marner never went to arbitration because they were never eligible, and there deals were heavily front loaded. Not even remotely comparable examples.
The best example of an arbitrary case for anyone anywhere Tkachuk's case is Weber in 2011 where he got 11.66% of the cap. In todays market that translates to just over 9.6M. There is very little ground to justify he gets much more than that.
I agree the OS part is irrelevant.
The #1 reason for this was to avoid the QO and a potential hold out
How does it at all show that?
I agree the front loading and UFA years involved skew the comparable contracts, yet RFA forwards who signed more recently who put up less point before signing can not just be swept away.
Eichel for instance had no front loading or back loading, 13.33% of cap, off a 64 point season. Given that was an 8 year deal where 4 of those years were UFA.
Matthews has 1 UFA year and 4 RFA years, 14.64% of cap, off a 73 point season. Even without using the front loaded portion of that deal, that 14% over 4/5th of his contract has to be a consideration.
I know both sides can use stats in arbitration, I know they can use what other RFAs received, how much consideration they put into the structures of those deals, or the amount the salary might have differed wihtout any UFA years, how much of a raise percentage they think a player deseves based on how his stats improved since his last contract, I am not sure.