vadim sharifijanov
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- Oct 10, 2007
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i don’t think there was a scenario where you couldn’t bring back one of zad or myers. that’s the personality hire contract, and this team needed one.
in the end, they opted for the older and much cheaper dad guy over the younger, more expensive big brother who makes you play bigger knowing he’s behind you. term is a function of age, obviously, but giving zadorov five years isn’t such a big deal considering the projected cap rises over the last 2/5 of the contract. so really, it’s just the issue of paying an extra $3m over the next three years for your #5 dman who you probably will have to overplay as a top four.
anyway, i think it was a mistake. if you had to have one of the two, and again i think management knew they absolutely had to have one of those two guys returning, i would have preferred to come out of training camp with:
hughes hronek
zadorov friedman (assuming he is never sent down and therefore never got hurt)
soucy juulsen
and then post-poolman trade we would have lucked back-assward into
hughes hronek
zadorov brannstrom
soucy friedman
juulsen
even with zaddy, a smaller d corps than would be ideal, but there’s a whole season for allvin to manoeuvre, and with no myers, forbort, and desharnais, that’s $500k of extra cap, and assuming zad was actually wanting to come back would have taken, say, $5.5m, that’s $1m in extra cap that could well by the deadline into some real room.
to make a gillis-era comparison, this to me feels like cheaping out at the 2010 deadline to bring in AHLberts as the willie mitchell replacement, with seidenberg (whom ehrhoff specifically requested after the olympics) on the table if he’d acted quickly and decisively enough. the cheaper option not only costs you because he’s not as good as the expensive option, but in both cases are so bad they cost you extra by being net negatives in the role they have to play.
in the end, they opted for the older and much cheaper dad guy over the younger, more expensive big brother who makes you play bigger knowing he’s behind you. term is a function of age, obviously, but giving zadorov five years isn’t such a big deal considering the projected cap rises over the last 2/5 of the contract. so really, it’s just the issue of paying an extra $3m over the next three years for your #5 dman who you probably will have to overplay as a top four.
anyway, i think it was a mistake. if you had to have one of the two, and again i think management knew they absolutely had to have one of those two guys returning, i would have preferred to come out of training camp with:
hughes hronek
zadorov friedman (assuming he is never sent down and therefore never got hurt)
soucy juulsen
and then post-poolman trade we would have lucked back-assward into
hughes hronek
zadorov brannstrom
soucy friedman
juulsen
even with zaddy, a smaller d corps than would be ideal, but there’s a whole season for allvin to manoeuvre, and with no myers, forbort, and desharnais, that’s $500k of extra cap, and assuming zad was actually wanting to come back would have taken, say, $5.5m, that’s $1m in extra cap that could well by the deadline into some real room.
to make a gillis-era comparison, this to me feels like cheaping out at the 2010 deadline to bring in AHLberts as the willie mitchell replacement, with seidenberg (whom ehrhoff specifically requested after the olympics) on the table if he’d acted quickly and decisively enough. the cheaper option not only costs you because he’s not as good as the expensive option, but in both cases are so bad they cost you extra by being net negatives in the role they have to play.
