Imo Nurse costs more, edm is use to handing out 6mill contracts like they grow on trees and he is suppose to be the dman of the future there

No, Nurse will not cost more - he’s an RFA and thus under club control. 6M over two years sounds like a reasonable price for a bridge deal.

wouldn't need to shop for discounts if didn't overpay some guys by so much (cough lucic)

Normally I agree, I just defended my own salary choices stating that teams with rfa control will should and do use bridge deals before they pay their young players... however I said that the exception lay with teams like Edm and Buf, especially edm now that they've hired the league's worst GM... taylor hall, jordan eberle, leon draisaitl, connorMcDavid, RNH, all rfas straight out of their entry level deals getting top contracts not because of production (worst team every year) but because of what they meant to the team down the line

Two contracts are from this current GM. You will see a precedent set for the top RFAs of a team get paid. As you will see with the leafs with Nylander and Marner and Matthew's. Drais and Mcdavid had set themselves apart from their peers when they signed their respective contracts. Nurse while improving every year, hasn't matched that level when compared to his draft year or players close by (example Ristolinan and Ekbland)