His M-NTC said no.......

i would have to think hes probably looking more in the 8m+ per year range than than 5.5, especially on a 6 year deal

You may be right. I meant to put 6.5M tbh

6.5 is probably still low tbh, hes a top line player at both ends of the ice. Not that it would really matter for this season in the ACGM anyway, but in the case you were trying to project past this ACGM

value is pretty close i would just switch rosen with a d prospect

I like this deal except for the slight nitpick that rosen isn't the my favorite piece.

If Buch would sign that, he'd have been extended already. You have a good amount of value, but as noted above Rosen is the wrong prospect (thunk Novikov, Strbak, even Wahlberg) and Joki isn't needed as things stand. If Faulk goes, then he definitely is.