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Alec Brownscombe discusses Mitch Marner’s second contract, Auston Matthews’ extension on TSN1200

You can listen to the full show here.

On the final Matthews terms and whether he was surprised by the five-year term at the $11.6 million AAV:

I wasn’t as surprised as some. People just assumed McDavid set the mark at $12.5 million and therefore Matthews would come in a million or so less over the same max eight-year term.

That overlooked a couple of things, one being that obviously, the cap is going up to 83 or 85 next year.

The other thing is that you can actually look at the McDavid contract a couple of ways.