Quoting: NateElder12
that's just a massive overpay for one extra year of term if it's only dropping the AAV to $11M. Maybe one prospect like you have but the drafts picks are overkill. It's definitely possible to afford him honestly i agree so it's confusing as to why people are so reluctant to try for him if possible. Now if he is saying he wants $11M+ on a 7 year deal and $9M on an 8 year deal then I'd definitely consider what you proposed at least.
So you'd pay him 77M to play with you for the rest of his career, in seven installments, or 72M over eight payments? I ain't no mathematician, but....
Aside from getting your point that you think longer term deals always go with reduced cap hits to help out a team, can I point out that this the potentially the best UFA season since Scott Stevens? A sign and trade is different from the trade for rights DD is discussing:
Quoting: DirtyDangles
I agree it is definitely doable but I don't see it happening when we have Couts and Patrick down the middle and there is no reason to give up assets for a chance to talk to him before July 1. He will hit the market if he doesn't want to stay in Long Island.
Here is an explanation from a respectable hockey news source:
https://www.tsn.ca/insider-trading-sign-and-trade-possible-for-tavares-1.1028621
Basically, now that a UFA's old team can write him an 8yr deal, assuming there is, indeed, a limit to the annual cap hit that any team will give a player (even if it's just the one in the rulebook) then a player seeking to maximize earnings will sign an eight year deal to make more total dollars (not to mention that it can then be more front loaded, so they get more money right away). If the eight year deal Tavares wants is at a higher number than the Isles feel they can afford, they have a choice between (a) thumbing their noses at him about that lost eighth year as he plays seven years against them, possibly for a division rival or (b) getting something back, by sitting down with Tavares and the team he wants to play for, and making a trade.
If Snow is not stupid, and I understand you may have to suspend disbelief a bit here, he's then in a situation where he's got a proven #1 center he has to trade within the next month. Teams might lowball him a little bit, but he's not giving him away for free, either.
Under no circumstance is Tavares viewing the eighth year of his contract as such a special treat that he'll accept less total value to get it over a longer amount of time. That means that in the last year he earns negative five million dollars. But you get that, right?