SKINS 5.1 million under cap.

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Originally Posted by GTripp0012

The problem with the franchise tag is that with all the escalators, it's essentially a one year thing. Works fine for 2008, but wouldn't using the tag on a guy make it harder to get a long term deal done.

I realize it could buy us more time, and that alone could be worth it, but we won't have the cap room in 2009 to Franchise him again. I'd like to see a deal done before November.

Yes, signing him to a long term deal would be, quite obviously, preferable to franchising him.