txpd
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Based on everything we’ve seen from GMBM, he’s not about to sign Holtby to a contract that will kill the team two years or four years later. If he gets $9m from us, it would be for a few years not 7 or 8. There won’t be full NTC or NMCs in there either.
(Though if I’m a major UFA next year and I don’t want to go to Seattle, I’m insisting my deal includes a NMC for the next couple of years...)
MacLellan has shown that he is willing to give term in exchange for AAV that fits his cap situation and with the freedom to trade that contract down the road. If you are a UFA why would you sign a contract til after the Xdraft if you don't want to go to Seattle? I doubt that Holtby has officially signed a contract anywhere til after that step has passed.