Spooner's Back

Pasta will get 6-6.5

Ok you said I could so.....
By The Way, I'm giving you 4 stars because it's pretty darn good.
Sweeney sells Pasta and his team that to win a cup with Bergy and Marchy and Krejci, he's going to have to bite the bullet for a few years (5). Then those guys are too old anyway. And Pasta can become the highest paid Bruin....but for now, $6.5AAV for 5-6 years (he will only be 26/27, so still 10-12 years to make huge money. Best chance in near future to win a cup is with Bergy and Marchy and Krejci. Don't handcuff the team with an unnecessarily high contract.
Bjork needs to be schooled for a year. Put Heinen in. He knows the system.
Everything else is perfect!!! So we're not that far apart!!!

I'm hoping your right. But TopShelf doesn't think so......

If he and his agent want a 7 or 8 year deal he'll want at least Krejci type money. On an 8 year deal I'd be using Kuznetsov's deal as a comparable. If it's fewer years then the cap hit will go down a bit though, as you said.

Paul I posted in your mock why a 5 year deal is a major issue. We lose him for nothing or pay him 12.5M or close yearly. I'd rather just give him an extra 1M spread out yearly for 7 years than pay him 6.5 for 5 years and bump him up to 12M+ after that. We'd save far more money just paying him the extra million and getting him signed for longer term. Just to do the math for you, 7 years at 7.5M = 52.5M...... 5 years at 6.5 = 32.5 then you add in his what you sign him as a UFA for which is 12M+ for those 2 years you didn't want to get at 7.5M...... so its 32.5M + 24M for those 2 years which equals 56.5M and you end up paying more than you would have had to in the first place. There is no way he'd get paid less than 12M+ 5 years from now if he just stays at the level he's at and if he gets better it could be 15M.