Sabres' Zach Benson gets $48.8 million contract update from analytics projection
This would be quite the payday for Benson.
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Zach Benson is making himself some serious cash. The Buffalo Sabres ' 21-year old winger is having an incredible playoff run, and he's doing it on the verge of hitting restricted free agency. He won't have quite as much negotiating power as an RFA, but he'll still get a new contract, and it could pay him quite handsomely.
Conveniently on Monday right before the Sabres play Game 7, fans had a chance to check out the release of the popular AFP Analytics free agent projection system . The website dishes out possibilities for every pending free agent, and Benson's numbers are fascinating. Because of Benson's age, the projections actually provide both a short-term and a long-term deal option.
The short-term deal would be two years at $4. 196 million per year, just under $8. 5 million in total value.