Quoting: sensibleguy
There's no mention of a $9MM AAV extension for DeBrincat in this post. He QO should be $9MM, which is alot.
This team will already have three high priced forwards in Tkachuk, Norris, and Stützle, as well as defencemen Chabot and eventually Sanderson. There's only so much room for $7MM+ salaries on a cap era team
$9,000,000 DeBrincat
$8,330,674 Tkachuk
$8,000,000 Chabot
$8,000,000+ Stützle
$7,000,000+ Norris
$7,000,000+ Sanderson
$5,000,000+ Zub
$4,975,000 Batherson
$57,305,674
Show me a team with that much invested in their top players (5F 3D) and I'll show you a team in cap hell
$10,000,000 Eichel
$9,500,000 Stone
$8,800,000 Pietrangelo
$7,000,000 Pacioretty
$5,900,000 Karlsson
$5,250,000 Martinez
$5,200,000 Theodore
$5,000,000 Marchessault
$56,650,000
BTW, the next three salaries are Murray, White, Zaitsev ($15,500,000) for Ottawa, and Lehner, Smith, Dadonov ($15,000,000) for Vegas
DeBrincat is not the guy for Ottawa
I didn’t mention the 9AAV extension, my mistake. Must have been lost when I was editing the post.
I think you are jumping the gun on a couple of those contracts, but my big question is do you think DeBrincat is not worth a 9AAV contract? Why not worry about those other guys contracts later when you are getting the sure thing right now?