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I have a hard time envisioning Gabe leaving Colorado and going to a team offering him the $9-10m that his agent has stated when the vast majority of the teams who can afford that, without hurting the rest of their current roster or future, aren’t contenders when Colorado very much is. He was mentored by Milan who spent his entire career in Colorado, his GM is Joe who spent his entire career there and all signs indicate he loves the locker room. Sakic lowballed with the $5.5 offer because of the RNH contract (not saying that’s comparable at all) but I’m confident they’ll meet in the middle between the $5.5-10m around where I’ve projected.
For EJ, Pat Brisson, his agent, came out a month or so ago stating that Erik’s still dealing with post-concussion symptoms from the January 30, 2021 injury against Minnesota. He’s spent most of this year completely away from the team (not even using the facilities), mainly at his second home in southern Cali trying to cope with the injuries. For the symptoms to be around for this long with no promising progress I don’t picture seeing him leaving LTIR for the coming season. I would love it if he could because he’ll bring that steady vet presence on the backend and would give us three solid pairings as well as his grit and penalty killing expertise that we will be missing with Gravy gone