(Phoenix, AZ) Many wondered why Leon Draisaitl was signed to such a large contract after his Calder Trophy season at 6.5 million a year for 3 years, after earning 1 million a year on his rookie contract. Now, many debated over the one year qualifying contract offer to Leon this past off-season at 7.15 million when he hasn't matched or even come close to the numbers he posted his rookie season. When asked about the deal in our weekly sit down GM Knoph responded with " we tried to work a deal out with a lower cap hit with an escalating salary after each year, however Leon and his agent weren't haven't any talks about a lower salary". " And why wouldn't they, they had all the cards on their side" added the GM. I asked if he could explain what he meant by that. He said " Well, if we don't qualify him he walks away and we get nothing in return and if we do qualify him he signs it, cause any sane agent would know that if they rejected that they could possibly get low salary offers with the production he has had the past few seasons and we would probably match it.". " So we were basically in a no win situation" the GM added.
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