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I think smith goes 1 or 2 roads.
1. He signs a 1 year deal, waits for the salary cap to fix after this messed up season and then goes long term.
2. He signs probably a 5-6 year deal.
I think any reasonable person would say, no way I would sign him that long. I totally agree and there is no way I would offer that contract either. He's 30.
But he's been at a 20 goal pace for 6 of the last 7 seasons. He's not going to get a huge 6 million dollar deal or anything, but he's going to ask for term. This is their last chance to really wrap up a big pay day.
They take a 3 year deal and they could be missing out on a lot of cash.
I look at signings last year. Josi got 8 years at 28.
So it's not like teams are learning their lessons about signing guys till they are 36 anymore. Although they should.
I think the cap hit is ok, but like a lot of contracts. JJ, Tanev etc... who it comes down to is who is going to add that extra year. Someone will offer 3, someone else will then offer 4 and think it's reasonable, then some idiot will offer 5.
That's my guess on how that works. The 30+ players like him and Tanev don't really benefit by signing 1 year deals so my guess is they go long term.