also bratt is gambling.
if he gets a serious injury, he might lost 20+ millions over the next few years.
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if he gets a serious injury, he might lost 20+ millions over the next few years.
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55 to 65 pts means he’s not signing long term. It’ll be another one year deal where he tries for another PPG year and he goes to UFA the following summer.
No but he was qualified at $3.5 m. Arbitration can knock that down to slightly below $3 m.
Mgd31
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Wood will get signed in the next day or so. No chance they get to a hearing for that.
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That's so stupid. I guarantee with his 3 games played and not even been cleared as of 3 weeks ago that nobody would have offered him that if we just didn't qualify him and let him go UFA. Not with just 3 games played in the last year and then having to be shut down yet again after his 3 games. With hardly any teams having significant cap space right now, no one is gonna sign a guy in his position to a 1 year $3 million deal. The fact that he's probably gonna make significantly more than half of what Bratt is making makes me want to smash my head against glass.
And we shouldn't be signing him after this year, unless he wants to play for like $1.5 million (maybe $2) per year.
We don't really have a player like Wood in our system, but what we should be looking for is a younger version of a player like Wood that's on an ELC or a very cheap deal.
You don't sign players like Miles Wood into his late 20's and 30's, and DEFINITELY NOT after the injury he just had.
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Objection. Speculation.
If Wood has a good year, stays healthy, scores 15 on the 4th line. I’d be fine signing him to a 4x3.5 deal.
Actually, it's all obvious. Bratt isn't ready to sign long term until he makes sure we bring back his bestie Pavel next year
Not only a serious injury bit multiple nagging injuries. Then again we really don’t know what NJ was offering.
I agree with you. Honestly, it wouldn't be a bad decision to let an arbitrator decide Wood's case and then just let him become a UFA.
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Bratt seems happy lol, just did an IG story. That doesn’t seem like a guy with bad blood to me.
This would be awful. It's already bad enough that they brought him back for a year but I get their rationale - this would be really, really bad.
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NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.
You don't sign 4th liners to FOUR year deals to begin with. Not 28-31 years old. No f***ing way.
These are the guys that you gotta stay away from when you're a salary cap team. You gotta move on from them. We've moved on from WAY BETTER players in the cap era for ''Salary cap purposes''.
Absolutely f***ing not. I'd sooner sign him to that if he scored 50 points (even though it wouldn't be sustainable, but let's forget that for a moment) this year.
There's no need to keep this guy around for 4 years from ages 28-31.
We need to be looking for a younger (maybe Tyce Thompson? Maybe?) player to give us what he brings (or used to bring before the injury) and for cheap.
You don't sign 4th line guys to 4 year deals. Not when they're 28-31 years old, not when you're at the cap and certainly not for $3.5 million a year.
The best I could do is $2 million a year and I wouldn't go 4 years. Maybe I could entertain a one year deal for $3.5 million?
Bratt's agent is crazy. I was expecting him to get a deal done the night before the deadline.
Waiting until 1 minute before the deadline is ambitious.
Waiting until 1 minute before the deadline is ambitious.
I hink it will prove beneficial to get players signed to long term deals during this flat cap era.
Will that still be in effect next year and we sign Bratt to an 8x8 deal that proves to be a great bargain long term? Hopefully.
Will that still be in effect next year and we sign Bratt to an 8x8 deal that proves to be a great bargain long term? Hopefully.
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Apparently we're not allowed to walk away unless it's over $4.5 million or something? I forgot what the number was.
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What am I missing? I am having a bad day but isn't Miles Wood up for Arbitration right now? If yes, how can you set goals for the future? Like "has a good year, stays healthy, scores 15 on the 4th line?"
It is set a dollar amount with terms now, I think.
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And he knows he won't get this on the UFA market because of his situation over the last year.
So he definitely makes out MUCH better by not becoming a UFA.
Maine Fan
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I got it, I didn't take it out far enough, $2.9 vs $2.975. I didn't want to post $3.0 or more. Thanks. Don't miss the message.
Well, this is unfortunate. They basically just "settled" on what the arbiter would've handed out anyway.
Bratt wants to go to UFA. Devils will have to trade him. That sucks.
Bratt wants to go to UFA. Devils will have to trade him. That sucks.
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I think bratt wants to remain a devil but he wants the Hughes contract. Fitz probably offered something less than hischiers contract
You’re right. He turns 27 in sept. (Time flies)So if we were to sign him next year he’d be 28 to start the deal. So 4 years is too long. 3x3.5 is even a little hairy but id do it. Assuming a healthy and productive year.
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Also if it's team filed arbitration (which it was) you can never walk away from it.
