I really feel he has not gotten the attention he's deserved around the league. Between Anaheim doing really badly over all, Zegras being so flashy, and MacTavish dominating the world juniors, I feel like he has kind of just been missed by the hockey world at large. Good contract.
The ducks cheap ass owner tried lowballing him and it backfired
That was just an arbitration number, it's standard salary negotiation tactics. Arb number would have been around 6.5, arbitration filing was just to put some pressure on the situation to get it done.