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Its not hard to see that the term is long to offset the low yearly AAV.
On the open UFA market he gets 8.5mil or more easily for almost the same term. For those of you looking at the last year or two of his contract, do you think that a 5 or 6 year deal at 9mil or more is better? Hes a 65pt plus player who won a selke, you don;t think he gets 9mil or more for 6 years? This helps the team for the 5-6 years, and a NMC works only as long as both sides want it to work, players do waive their NTC or NMC.
Realists see this as a great AAV with a year too long, but not acknowledging the trade off of that extra year or two for the low AAV are just crazy.