Huberdeau

It's a year later though, so definitely shouldn't be giving him the last and final offer to Gaudreau. If Huberdeau were to get 10.5x7 in free agency, CGY should be able to offer him 9.1875mx8.

Lol, didn't realize this was an actual signing

It's a year later, but you have to keep in mind you're trying to sell someone on Alberta winters. Not exactly easy when you're dealing with a player coming from Florida. It was always going to be an overpay and that's ok. Would rather find ways to build around him than find another star, not easy to do.

The difference between committing in Can vs Fla.
Weegar will get 8.5m in Cgy lol. Which would be a mess.!?

Yeah, I didn't realize that it was an actual signing. It makes sense that they would have to pay that now without him actually playing any games. The cap will go up 1m at least anyways next year, so worth securing him now than to save a few gp. I do think that he would have wanted at least 10mx8 from them anyways which was what was supposedly how much FLR would have had to pay him although talks were preliminary. So, the extra 500k is for the tax difference, I think.

Actually the tax difference between Alberta and Florida isn't that great. Huberdeau would have wanted 10mx8 from FLR. Difference between 10mx8 in FLR and 10.5x8m in Alberta is like 5m. Considering the low cost of living in Alberta , and that all players are getting paid in USD, after conversion to Canadian, the 5m is probably mostly negligible.