McDavid and Drai on value contracts still ended up having to overpay to retain their home grown Nurse. I mean, if McDavid was at $14 mill and Drai at $10 mill and Nurse at $6.,25 mill same cap but at least you are kind of fine with Nurse at that amount. Same with the other 2. But, that's EDM. Long debunked logic of players taking less to play with Connor and Leon.
Yeah I just don’t see Drai staying, or McD really. They are big time players and they should be playing in a bigger market to grow the game. I think Drai will probably end up in like LA and then McD in like NY.
My guess is both will do the nba star player move and re-sign without much discount and be prepared to ask for a trade as soon as the team has a disappointing playoff run.
How do you make a trade work? Edm would be foolish to allow them to just walk. Maybe only Drai walks if the push all their chips in next season.
Doubt it. I think next season is going to be like their last dance. Like I said, even at a discount he is going to cost them 14M. McD at a discount is like 16M? That’s 30M right there. Bouchard after that playoff is going to cost 10 and he’s not going to take anything lower than Nurse. That’s 50M right there. You think they don’t realize that they can’t be competitive with 4 players taking up 50M?
Edmonton is probably f***ed. If Drai doesn’t extend they have to trade him but Edmonton being Edmonton probably won’t and once Drai walks then McD is gone for sure and they probably won’t trade him either.
But, once Leon puts pen to paper, it becomes hard to get out of EDM. Have to make the cap work plus EDM is on virtually everyone's NTC list. So, hard to send back enough cap to fit them in. Better off to get dealt first. Or just demand a trade this off-season.
They have one more year, then it blows up, I agree. Drai is going to want to be the #1 guy somewhere instead of playing second fiddle to McDavid. Their bottom 6 is going to look a whole lot worse, they have $10m to sign 9 guys.
You're on the money. Accommodating McDavid alone, as valuable as he is, is a massive $16M cap commitment. To bring Drai as well? The roster would need to be blown up to make it happen. Teams with that kind of room are probably nowhere close to competing for the Cup and contenders trying to make room to sign them are taking a massive risk if they don't land the big fish.
I don’t think anyone knows what Drai can get in the open market as well. 16? 17? What’s the cap max now? I think he has to be able to get close to that. I think maybe he can take a discount of like 1M from that but can Edmonton really pay him like 15-16 if he can get 16-17 on the open market?
Because, on the face of it, I don't think patellar tendinitis is necessarily worse than a broken rib and fine. In fact, I think a broken rib and finger is probably worse but obviously who really knows?
Well cap is going to be 94M+ when McD is a UFA and the max contract is going to be 19M? He is going to cost like 18 and that’s like a discount already. I feel like the more I look at this, the more expensive McD is going to be lol.
My wife had that and she could barely walk. Of course she doesn’t have the muscles to support her as much but I could see how the daily pain really compounded.
Also hard to keep your hopes up playing in a market that players don't want to sign in. Like being in the NBA and being in Memphis, NO, OKC, or somewhere that doesn't attract talent.
For sure, and I may also have a disc issue or nerve damage, and frankly, its been pretty miserable to deal with. My point was that, on the face of it, I don't think Pettersson's injury is necessarily worse than Draisaitl's. But obviously we will never know.
More that they can't get any help. No one is wanting to join them.
I don’t know what to say, he said it was not an excuse, he needs to be better and will work to improve. Do we need him to be more Japanese and then bow down to his knees and head on the floor and beg for forgiveness to determine leave of sincerity?
Matheson looks like such an ignorant, doddering fool here.
