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Travis

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Forum: NHL SigningsJun. 26 at 12:22 p.m.
Thread: Colorado Avalanche signed Casey Mittelstadt (3 Years / $5,750,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jr400</b></div><div>I don't have a problem with short-term contracts. Used to be you want to lock a guy up long term to get as many years as you can out of him before you lose him for nothing as a UFA, but more and more players seem to be signing extensions these days instead of becoming UFAs (I don't have the stats on that -- it's just the way it seems to me), so the longer term becomes more of a gamble because you don't know how good the player is going to be in 6, 7 or 8 years. Also, young players usually want more AAV to sign long term, so short-term contracts are a good way for a team in win-only mode to keep the cap hit down. Then hopefully when it's time to re-sign the player, they can afford to give him a raise because the cap will be higher.</div></div>

yeah I think unless its a high-end young player, who you want locked up long-term, it's almost smarter to keep it 3-4 years.. easier to move, and mitigates some risk (obviously, there's risk that the player blows up his value on next contract, but that's a good problem to have too...)