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He plays hard, sure, but that shooting percentage is unsustainable and, once that regresses, even his playoff performances won’t justify the contract - and if the league ever decides to start enforcing the rules in the playoffs, then it will just be a boat anchor.

It goes deeper than that. It’s been a decline that started with Nixon, was accelerated by Reagan’s “moral majority,” and pushed to the breaking point since W.

His value is actually higher now than it’s been for a few years. He’s finally tradeable again.

He won’t be able to maintain the 20% shooting percentage he’s put up over his last two playoffs. Once that goes, who knows how he’ll be seen with this contract.

Certainly feels that way.

The players have a hand in this, too. Who knows, they might have even been the ones to put this forward. Maybe going from getting paid in full by one team to being split between three wasn’t well liked. Either way, it’s the fans that lose.

I don’t know if there is a good format, but only the NHL has things move this slowly.

This is going to complicate things. Leave it to the NHL to make things that fans enjoy less likely to happen.

It’s going to age poorly. He’s a 50 pt guy in the regular season.

Doyle’s not really a cap dump. I’m sure other teams were interested. Just no one else would also take Wood’s ridiculous contract.

Bullet dodged. That’s not going to age well.

Definitely banking on the rebound there. He's a good add, but also, is he what the Habs needs? Seems to me like they need more help up front.

Only ~$500k more than Frederic!

No complaints about this one. Still leaves the team with lots of room to maneuver.

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Let’s see the numbers…

It's an insane contract for Frederic. It might not look too bad near the end if the cap keeps going up and he can regain some of his offensive output, but, near-term, it's bad - especially for a team with cap issues and prominent contract situations they need to get resolved. Unless they move...

But, then, what will McDavid do?