i love the player but this is incredibly risky

no. ror is and has been all year

Thomas is a great player. But you need to sign him to a bridge before you do this. If he keeps up the pace from last season and continues to grow it will be fine.

As long as last season wasn't a fluke, then this will be an amazing deal. If last season was a fluke, the yikes.

PPG player about which i never heard about. I'm not fan of Blues, but you normally know about all the best players around

He's currently on a bridge deal, not on his ELC anymore

Bridge deals are not dependent upon a person coming off an ELC. You can be bridged more than once.

I define a bridge deal as a multi year deal that isn't an ELC, but doesn't buy any of a player's UFA years

Great! So by your definition Thomas could have been bridged again!

He's two years away from UFA, so the only way he retains his RFA status after a 3rd contract is if that deal only is 1 year long, and I said I defined a bridge deal as being MULTI-year

We are basing this off of your definition of a bridge deal that I don’t necessarily agree with. Players get bridged to UFA all the time. UFAs even get bridged. I get it’s not a great idea but it happens. In this case with Thomas I’m bridging him before giving him an 8x8. If he wants 8 years I’m lowering that AAV.

I don't like the idea of using the term bridge with UFA's, it feels like it kind of goes against the fundamental means of how a "bridge" deal is most commonly used contextually

Feeling neutral on this one. The organization seems to believe he's the franchise center moving forward and I could see this aging fantastically, but that is certainly a huge commitment.

Wonder what this means for Kyrou