He's 30. How long is he a serviceable player for? 4 more years, maybe? How would it look if the blues gave him 1.25 per for 8 years? 10M but really thinned out per year for cap. So instead of 4 X 2.5 you give him 8 years. He can be LTIR'd if he gets broken, or if he's an AHL player in 4 years, you're only paying like 300K in cap penalties to send him down. Looks like he's earned 9.5M over his career thus far.
I'm not saying I would do this but just curious if you could get a hometown guy like Maroon on a long term deal like that. He still gets his money, and the cap is pretty much nothing. Although the Seattle expansion would probably make this a no on his end, if he could just get snagged in two years.