Leon Draisaitl‘s Take care of Edmonton is Simply Proper
The week’s huge information is that Leon Draisaitl is staying with the Edmonton Oilers. He signed a brand new eight-year extension price $112 million. Draisaitl’s new cap hit subsequent season will probably be $14 million, making him the highest-paid participant based mostly on AAV within the NHL.
The query stays: was this contract the suitable match for each the participant and the group?
Elliotte Friedman joined Evanka Osmak on Sportsnet’s Sports activities Central to debate the Leon Draisaitl extension with the Edmonton Oilers and defined how that is the proper quantity for the Oilers and Draisaitl.
NHL Information: The Edmonton Oilers Prolong Leon Draisaitl for Eight Years
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Evanka Osmak: “At all times nice to have Elliotte Friedman, our Sportsnet NHL Insider, be part of us on the present. All proper. Elliott, the Oilers give dry settle the very best common annual worth in NHL historical past of $14 million. So let’s go along with the Goldilocks query: is that quantity an excessive amount of, too little, or simply proper?
Elliotte Friedman: “I’m going to go in a unique path. I’m going to go along with D, it’s important to preserve him. In case you take heed to Stan Bowman at the moment (Tuesday), you can not change the participant. And it’s you’re , I take a look at it that method, if it’s essential to signal Leon Draisaitl to win the Stanley Cup, you attempt to persuade him to take one of the best quantity you’ll be able to probably for the group, and also you make it work round him and McDavid and all people else.
And the opposite factor to recollect right here, Evanka, is that Leon Draisatil’s wage is between 15 and 16% of the cap. That’s that’s the place the highest gamers go. In case you check out the highest gamers after they signal their deal, that’s the market fee, 15 to 16%, and that’s why I’m not stunned that that’s the quantity.
I assumed earlier in the summertime, the quantity would possibly start with a 13. However then a few week or so, I heard it was most likely going to be round 14. And for those who check out the going fee for star gamers within the NHL, like the true star franchise gamers and Draisaitl is 15 to 16% of the cap, is the quantity. So he is available in proper the place he deserves to be and so long as the cap goes the place the league and the gamers imagine it’s going to go, they need to be okay with that quantity.”
Leon Draisaitl New Contract Exhibits A Dedication to Edmonton and Profitable
As Friedman notes with the wage cap going up over the subsequent few seasons, we are able to count on an increasing number of gamers to take up 15 to 16 p.c of the wage cap.