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I think the 1 year Hall deal was under very different circumstances. Hall just came off of a 27P season in 35GP and hadnt played more than 35 regular season games in each of the last 3 seasons. I think the idea was to take a short term deal and play with Eichel to increase his value so he could get a bigger deal the next offseason (obviously it didnt work out, he was even worse in BUF and then signed cheap in BOS).
Gaudreau is coming off of the most productive season of his career. Now is the time for him to cash in on a high AAV long term deal, not risk it all on a 1 year deal where he might underperform and lose out on millions of dollars