Mikhail Sergachev, 5 years at $5,000,000.
- This follows the way how TB dealt with Hedman after his ELC, giving him a 5 year contract at $4M cap hit. The increase of one million is explained by the cap increase. Hedman's cap percentage was 6,22%, and the cap percentage of that Sergachev deal is 6,13%, so there's no major difference in there.
Anthony Cirelli, 3 years at $4,000,000.
- This follows the way how TB has dealt with almost all of their current forwards - namely giving a 3 year bridge for their players after their ELCs. Now considering the fact that last Point scored 92 points and gained a $6,75M contract, there's virtually no reason why Cirelli couldn't take a $4M contract at the same length, after all he didn't score even half the amount Point did. The cap percentage of him getting a $4M is very much comparable with that of the contracts Johnson and Palat got after their respective ELC campaigns, which ended with a 50 point year for Johnson and 59 point year for Palat, so performance wise there's not much difference there.
Erik Cernak, 1 year at $1,000,000.
- This is probably the most wishful thinking regarding the contracts, but I can see some wisdom both for the player and team with a contract as such. Giving a one year "prove yourself" deal follows the logic many other players such as Labanc, DeAngelo and Pettersson got last year, and after the covid I think contracts like these are going to become much more commonplace as many teams struggle with cap.
Moving down only ~60 picks from the 2nd to the 4th, while getting a pick a year earlier, seems like an amazing price for Palat (and Paquette as a throw-in). I think Tampa could get a much better deal than that, unless of course Palat says that Colorado is the ONLY team he's willing to waive for.
I don't see Cernak being willing to take that big of a risk. Just look at how badly things worked out for Labanc...
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