Quoting: erikivedal
I´m thinking Johnson waives and they protect 4+4 and Landeskog sign after the exp draft. Soct G they proteirard, Toews, Makar & Graves + MakKinnon, Rantanen Burrkowsky and Jost.
Why wouldn´t COL not sing Makar long term? I think his worth more than 10 m now.
There actually are several good reason to not sign him to a big deal right now.
1) The Avs still have 4 years of RFA control and would like to keep costs down for as long as possible
2) If he signs a bridge, like the ones posited elsewhere for 3x$7M, it helps keep their Cup window open longer
3) From the Avs' perspective, if they do a bridge now then a bigger deal later, they keep him under contract throughout his entire prime; if he does 3x$7M right now then, say, 8x$11 later, that takes him all the way through his early 30's, his best years
4) From the perspective of Cale's camp, it buys them time for him to, A) win a Norris or two, driving up his price and, B) wait out the flat cap; signing a long-term deal now could cost him north of $10M
5) It also buys the Avs time to wait out the flat cap so that his (and Mac, for that matter) hit is a smaller percentage of the cap
I mean, the long-term deal right now is security for Cale but he'd be leaving a lot on the table in order to do it and the Avs cap situation would be a bit trickier. It seems like the bridge is a non-at-all-bad path, all things considered.