Quoting: Masonh618
Why not bridge one of the two?
It seems reasonable to me that K'Andre Miller's next contract will resemble that of Ryan Lindgren.
Quoting: tkecanuck341
You're going to give $6.4M to a guy with career highs of 19g and 31p? You shouldn't be giving out extensions based on a player's position in the draft. Any more than $3.5M for Lafreniere is too much based on his body of work thus far.
Quoting: jschultz18
Laf probably won't get close to this much unless he goes off. Also Trouba can be traded to clear cap. Goodrow too.
Quoting: Icehockey18121124
Highly doubt Laf considers 8 years unless he is over a ppg this year and if he does it will be way more than 6.4.
If he gets close to .5 ppg but still under this year I doubt he does more than 2 or 3 years and that would be probably be around 3 but may be as high as 4 if it is 3 years.
If he is between .5 and .75 ppg then he may do 4 years but that would be bad for nyr but should be closer to 5 mil.
If he is over .75 then it will probably be 3-5 years closer to your number.
NYR should try to do 3 years and line it up with the end of Trouba’s deal. That way they can spend with term on others and not have to worry about how to find cap space for Laf
If you look at the compatibles I posted, none were point per game players when they signed their deals. Most had at least one 50 point season under their belt. Assuming Laffy gets somewhere from 50-60 points this season (not crazy if he gets PP1 time), I would 100% give him the 8 year deal. It has bargain written all over it over the final 4 years. Miller I would do at least 4 years. I wouldn’t do less, let Panarin and all them come off the books before he cashes in. Same with Kakkos eventual extension(s).
NYR historically have not done the long extensions for young players. Stepan, Kreider, Zucc, JT Miller, Hayes, McDonagh, Staal, Girardi all got multiple bridge deals which ended up with them pricing themselves out. Look at Tampa, Colorado, etc. Most top teams are smart to max term the players that are important to their future. I think locking up shesty only the 4-5 years was such a mistake. If he keeps it up, he will be 30 when his next max contract starts and we all see how that can pan out (lundqvist, price, etc.) when it comes to a goalie