Confirmed Signing with Link: [ANA] Lindholm signed (6 years, $5.25m AAV)

[pbgoalie]

Solid signing for a guy that has a heck of a reputation for doing the hard work conditioning to
Be his best for a long time...
H
Gotta say, I was losing faith in GM Bob, but this signing now gives the Ducks some space to
Only move somebody in a hockey trade to improve the team, not negatively impact it.

Great job by ducks

 

[Paradise*]

Very nice deal for Anaheim.

 

[Theokritos]

Nice try by Lindholm. Good for Anaheim that it didn't work out, now both sides can move on.

 

[Nordic*]

Makes you wonder what kind of a ******, disrespectful contract Anaheim offered him before.

 

[Lurch]

Wow, this is certainly the year for taking advantage of RFA's. A bridge I could understand, but 6 years below value? I don't understand.

 

[Vipers31]

Makes you wonder what kind of a ******, disrespectful contract Anaheim offered him before.

Not really. I imagine Murray started pretty close to this number, while Lemieux tried if he could get an Ekblad-type deal out of this.

 

[NHLNUT04]

Ducks reach six-year deal with RFA Hampus Lindholm

Steal!!!

 

[Lampedampe]

So danny dekeyser makes just 250k less.....

sure sure, more RFA years on lindholm contract, but how many?

 

[I am not exposed]

Incredible deal.

Makes me even more angry about the Ekblad deal.

 

[PaulGG]

Very good for Ducks and Lindholm, long term at very reasonable price. No team was seriously going to pay him much more plus give up assets to get his rights.

 

[HanSolo]

Makes you wonder what kind of a ******, disrespectful contract Anaheim offered him before.

Uhmmm...based on what I've read this is pretty much exactly what Anaheim wanted from the beginning so...

 

[KrisLetAngry]

How.

Damn I don't understand.

He's so good.

 

[Sojourn]

Makes you wonder what kind of a ******, disrespectful contract Anaheim offered him before.

Probably in the realm of $5m-$5.25m.

Hardly ******, or disrespectful. I don't know why you're taking offense over an imagined slight.

 

[Machinehead]

Makes you wonder what kind of a ******, disrespectful contract Anaheim offered him before.

My "bias" against Anaheim might prevent me from arguing with you here but...

Even if they did, that's just how you negotiate. Very rarely do you give the player a number and he says "done." Even if he loves the team and wants to, agents get paid to do the opposite. So the player will come back with something higher. If you think he's worth 5, and you open with 5, he comes back with 6 or 7. Refuse to go up from there and kiss your reputation goodbye.

So for a player worth what Vatanen got here, it's perfectly normal to open with 3 or 4, have him come back with something ridiculous, and you meet in the middle.

For my business I generally want 30 an hour. I used to open with 30 and people would say "how about 20?" Now I open with 40 and people say "how about 30?" I get what I came in wanting and they feel like they got a break.

 

[XX]

GMs are holding the line against RFAs this year. Easier to do it when every other team is doing the same.

 

[Theridion]

GMs are holding the line against RFAs this year. Easier to do it when every other team is doing the same.

Agreed. The GMs of this league have pushed themselves against the cap.

It is a normalization. Somewhere between winning, having a cap, and looking at early 2000 contracts that were 10 mil per year.

This contract is well below UFA market value, but its what 1 impact player on a team sport should earn. He is earning an above average fraction of the cap, but that must mean several players below the cap to compensate his AAV.

Teams need to consider, if i pay above cap divided by players, is that amount worth having players on cheaper deals to fill gaps? Can I fill that with vets or rookies? Does that actually make my team better?

Teams didnt do that before. They just shelled the money to sign the star. With cap era effecting teams fully now (with youngsters graduating to real contracts), new norms need to be established. And they are being established with declining big money deals.

 

[me2]

Bargain. I figured he get something like that on 5 years, the 6th year is nice bonus for the ducks.

 

[thadd]

One of the best contracts out there!

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Makes you wonder what kind of a ******, disrespectful contract Anaheim offered him before.

It makes you wonder that.

 

[bossram]

Absurdly good deal. They've locked in probably the single best defensive defenseman in the NHL (and a legit 1D) for the entirety of his prime years at 5.25. It's a coup.

 

[caliamad]

GMs are holding the line against RFAs this year. Easier to do it when every other team is doing the same.

Uh really? Florida says differently

 

[Shmuffalo]

Man, what a hell of a deal. Good for Anaheim. I'm really surprised Lindholm took that contract.

 

[Ducks Nation*]

Which deal is better this one or Kucherov's?

 

[LondonKendrick]

This guy is infinitely better than Rielly and Risto but they use their numbers to objectively determine his value and Hampus is the one that caves?

 

[BrendanGallagher11]

Now we can see how the ducks superstar number one d can do!