David Pagnotta

I don't think so.

I'm of the belief that Conor's going to re-sign in Edmonton, and it'll be a shorter-term deal.

I don't expect a full eight-year term.

I mean, I don't expect six or seven.

If you go six or seven, you might as well just go the full eight.

So I'm not expecting that.

I'm expecting two, three, four years as a bit of a feeling out to see how this team is going to do and how they're going to kind of reshape part of this roster in the coming years.

So I anticipate that being around that $17 million mark over a shorter-term deal, more term you get, more dollars are attributed.

You know, certainly.

So I don't think Kaprizov kind of screwed himself out of this big ticket.

He's still going to cash in heavily.

You know, he spoke the other day and was just saying, look, this is my second home.

I like it here.

Everybody knows I like it here.

There's plenty of time to figure this out.

Now, which leads me to believe one of two things.

One, maybe he's considering short term because he wants to see how this team does moving forward before committing to a full eight, which will eventually be a max of seven years.

Or maybe they are fighting for more dollars.

With the way that the salary cap is going up, it's projected to go up to $104 million.

It's at $95.5 million now.