Be a Hab
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I'll be shocked if it's less than $5M AAV. Perhaps Covid flat cap helps us though.
$3.5M - $4M range is not really fair in my books. Just cause we got Toffoli for a good AAV, it don't mean that is the standard. If we try to push for a low ball AAV, Danault walks cause you insult him. Oilers would welcome him for $4M for sure and Danault might say screw you for low balling him, he will take the low ball offer and play with someone else.
He's in his prime and is a very valuable middle 2C that most teams are after. Supply and Demand always sets the market price.
Term is key IMO. I don't care one bit if we have to overpay him by $500k or $1M for the years where we will bridge Suzuki, KK, Romanov, Caufield. I say pay him for 3 years. Otherwise, we take steps backwards and other teams can focus on Suzuki and KK more and you might not like what you see
I agree.
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I was listening to a french radio today and they were talking about Danault. They said, they believe Danault had already refused a 5M 5 year contract. I just can't see us being a competitive team if we give Danault 6M a year.
Do you believe that has a free agent some team will offer him 6M/year? I think if he wants to stay in Montreal he will need to accept 5M a year.