Just because he loves money and not winning, doesn't mean he's an idiot. lol
I mean signing that contract so close to being a UFA basically tells the rest of the league that very thing.
For me, that's too much to give up unless it comes with a contract extension - then the value would be fine.
Otherwise, he's a pure rental and sure, he's only making $2.75M or something like that for the rest of the year but we saw the Avs have the ability to put Landeskog on LTIR to go over the cap and they didn't even do it last TDL.
Obviously, it would give us a fantastic opportunity to repeat but I still believe that Newhook + a 1st round pick could be used (along with other assets) to get a player that is signed longer or that actually CAN be re-signed.
It's curious to read about Scheifele's attitude issues because we didn't hear so much about that 2-3 years ago and that stuff has kind of surfaced more recently. Is that due to playing on a team that is seemingly spinning it's wheels and he just basically wants out? I kind of heard that he doesn't want to play defense but like I said, you never used to hear this stuff before - so is this just a guy who's sick of playing there?
Is this guy really horrible and we should want no part of him? I don't know the answer to that but if he's able to come in with a good attitude and play the way he's able to play - that guy would be an incredible addition as the #2C for the next TWO years at $6.125M per.
My preference is STILL Bo Horvat though.