I’m so glad that’s not the name of the team. It sounds more like a porn movie name
Good luck trying to convince him and his agent otherwise, when he's going to put up PPG playing with McDavid and they have a much worse defenceman in Nurse making over 9M.
For a young guy, but as long as McDavid is there... vets will take huge discounts to offset that.
$12m
That's exactly the money he could have asked for if they won the cup last year and he won the Smythe.
I'm not saying he gets it, but the angling is trying to get 12m or more. He wants paid every penny. Truthfully too... if he hits UFA, there will be somebody that probably goes above that.
The way it's worded the Rags are willing to go above 10.5M but "there are limits" as if Shesterkin wants way more than 10.5M. Dude has won nothing outside of a single Vezina and plays in a popular market, that'd reset the goalie value big time.
Here's the thing--contracts should be paying for future performance, not past accomplishments. "Reward" contracts are usually disastrous (see: Seabrook, Brent). He is arguably the best goalie in the league, I certainly would put him an entire level above his contemporaries (he doesn't get anywhere near the help Swayman does). DGAF if he hasn't won anything, he's already proven his value to the team.
I'd be shocked if he didn't get a 12m offer as a UFA, and matching the total over 7 years would probably happen. Bobrovsky got 10m with the cap at 81.5m. That's equivalent to about 11.4m on next year's cap... and while Bob had hardware, he wasn't viewed as highly as Shesty is today.
Oh I fully agree with that. He'll turn 30 two months into that new contract (which will undoubtedly be 8 years) so that doesn't work.
They'd have to offer 12.6M X 7 to match that. Not happening.
Goalies tend to age better than skaters. Probably not worth the money when he's 38, but could still be plenty worth it at the age of 36.
Nobody's pretending he's going to remain elite for the entirety of that deal. The expectation is that he maintains his prime for at least two more years, and then remains at least a viable franchise goalie for 2-4 years after that. Anything else is irrelevant because the Rangers will be long since done by then, probably at that point trying and failing to stay afloat with a really old and expensive roster.
Among 31 other teams, someone would make that happen most assuredly. They'd figure out the cap afterwards.
San Jose offered Tavares 13M 6 years ago. Someone would easily offer Shesty that.
