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While I don't disagree its a lot of term and AAV, I would like to point out that he played for a dogs**t team his entire career. A team that finished last place in the league twice, bottom 5 once and bottom 8 twice. He is -17 over his career while the team had a goal differential -300. He has posted even CF% relative and FF% relative while having a mostly defensive zone start. Sure he only put up 20-30 points in his career but look at how many points Duchene had last year.
The Wild also got 3 years of UFA on this deal that will bring him to the end of his prime.
I don't think its a great deal but I also don't think its bad. We shall see.