Dumb. You burn a year of team control and he gets to UFA a year earlier. Even if you are handing him an eight year extension after next year that’s just one less year of his prime at the backend of it. This would be an awful decision.
True, but at this stage of the rebuild cap isn’t an issue, and by the time it is, these guys’ second deals are going to be inked, burning a year or not. 5 years from now, if they are a cap team that might change.
He'll still have 2 years of his ELC left after this season. If he signs for 8 years afterwards, we're talking a whole decade before we have to potentially deal with this.
and the better the player is the more valuable the decision is to extend the elc years, it means f*** all nothing if its some 4th liner that might have a fair value that is 1.5m or something, but when you're talking bedard who is worth 10m or something vs 925k thats a huge amount of value captured by extending elc years
Yeah may as well keep him up.
its not just a question of losing a player, its bringing them a year closer to their true market value
He could cost more money, he could walk, the Hawks could prematurely hand an 8 year extension to a guy without him having been worth it and getting stuck with a bad deal, Levshunov could refuse to sign a relatively cheap 8 year extension and end up asking for a bridge which really presses the issue at the end of it (overpay or lose the player who has room to force his way out then). Team control is the most valuable you get from drafting a player so I wouldn't just give it up without a good reason.
Moore and Nazar will be so nasty. I could see them getting 5-9 shorties a year together. Really more like 2 Froliks thand a Kruger and Frolik.
Lev is burning a year of the ELC because he was playing professionally in the AHL, correct? Pretty sure the 9 games limit is when the other games are in the CHL.
he's under 20 so it would slide if he doesn't exceed 9 games this year, I thought it was only chl thing too but apparently his would slide
The fact that Lev deserves it with his play should not affect the business decision. Not with the team going nowhere. With only a handful of games left in the RS he should finish the season in RFD.
9 more games in the NHL is more valuable than closing the season in Rockford imo
Wonder how much that lowers once Maroon Foligno and Martinez are off the team. All of them are 36-37 years old heck even Brodie is 34 and he lowers the age when he is hopefully off the team next year
Yes, now is the anxiety inducing part when your "can't miss sure thing" prospect takes a step back, people start comparing you to the Sabres, and there are no more scapegoat veterans to blame the losses on.
