What in tarnation
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20 goal power forwards tend to cost much, because they're fan favorites, and they tend to lift up the team's play. Using Ferland and his team CAR as an example - they have history of signing power forwards with big money, for example with Tuomo Ruutu. He got a $4,75M x 4 contract after an 18 goal season. He was 29 at the time, Ferland's 27. Back then, the salary cap was just about $60M. This means that Ruutu's contract was nearly 8% of the cap. Now it's rumored that salary cap is going to be $83M. 8% of that is $6,64M f*cking dollars. Boy, that's a lot of money. Now since he's younger than Ruutu was when he got signed, if he ends up as UFA, it's not too unrealistic to think that Ferland might be after a 7M dollar contract. This could apply to Dzingel as well.
Now I personally don't think these players are worth this much like at all, but there might be teams that need these kind of players so much they actually might have to pay that amount.