Around the NHL - Part XLIII

[leetch99]

Talking about slumping Dmen....Dobson has had a bad start and many were saying he might get a 9-10 million buck deal . I think the injuries and Pat Roy and the pressure has got to him a wee bit . If he can play solid D...they still have a great Dman...and his points will come....it is not always about points .

 

[80shockeywasbuns]

The bolded is doing a lot of work here. You guess wrong on your core, you're locked in for nearly a decade per guy you're wrong on. Extending out everyone forever is video game brain.

You don't even have to be catastrophically wrong, they can just be kinda mid. I'd bet Buffalo would rescind that Dylan Cozens contract right now. Josh Norris can score... when he plays. Does he do enough other stuff? Little late in the process to ask that question now for Ottawa.

No team building strategy will be perfect. It seems like you’re deathly afraid of the situation where you sign a contract and then it’s bad value for its entirety. Ironically NYR, who almost always bridge, have two of such contracts with around the same AAV as Norris haha

 

[NYR94]

 

[noncents]

i think it's great to see members of the homogenous hockey community expanding their horizons

 

[effen]

No team building strategy will be perfect. It seems like you’re deathly afraid of the situation where you sign a contract and then it’s bad value for its entirety. Ironically NYR, who almost always bridge, have two of such contracts with around the same AAV as Norris haha

I think extending guys for big term out of ELC pretty much always loses the surplus value you'd get off bridge deals while being inherently risky they live up to their contract as it goes on. I think generally they're bad bets to make, with exceptions (McDavid/Matthews, maybe you have literally nothing on the books for a decade so why not).

Mika's not out of an ELC, but is a good example of guessing wrong on term with someone being a giant anchor for half a decade.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Ovechkin broken leg confirmed, damm

 

[Cmox]

didnt know it was April already.

Spoiler: Pavel Datsyuk signed a one-day deal today to formally end his career as a Detroit Red Wing.

this is the reason;
Pavel Datsyuk signed a one-day deal today to formally end his career as a Detroit Red Wing.

 

[mike14]

That's 'Coyotes legend Pavel Datsyuk' to you!

 

[LokiDog]

Datsyuk was one of the truly unique talents I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. Guy put up a few big offensive seasons while probably being even better defensively than he was offensively and just purely magic with the puck on his stick. His highlight reel of just making people fall over themselves or collide with each other, regardless of whether it ends up in a shot on goal or not, is epic stuff. Guy was just incredible to watch for a few years at his peak. Selke winner 3 years in a row, finalist 6 years in a row, and put up between 87-97 points in 4 straight of those years.

For comparison, Bergeron won six Selkes but his career high was 79 points, next best season was 70. Datsyuk winning 2 of his Selkes while putting up 97 points is pretty wild. Bergeron is the gold standard when it comes to the Selke but Datsyuk winning 3 straight and 6 straight times as a finalist and putting up huge totals while being an absolute magician was just extremely fun to watch.