Silovs simply isn't very good, and will likely leave the organization as a Group VI UFA after next season.
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Silovs simply isn't very good, and will likely leave the organization as a Group VI UFA after next season.
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Ok so I agree with that….
Anything else? I’m failing to see how I was wrong here do enlighten me.
Why not simply acquire the team with the most ass to hip ratio in the league and pray?
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The medical staff needs to give the players an alibi.
Permission to take time off with injuries with out losing face or feeling like they are not tough enough.
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The term and NMC don't matter.
If Hughes leaves in 2 years, any term or trade protection after that is irrelevant, the team has to be competitive now.
If he stays, we can reevaluate.
If Hughes leaves in 2 years, any term or trade protection after that is irrelevant, the team has to be competitive now.
If he stays, we can reevaluate.
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I would have felt better at $3M per year. But when Mackenzie Blackwood is getting 5 x 5.25M after playing 2 games with the AVS, its just not realistic. Blackwood is 1.5 years younger than Lankinen (though Blackwood has more NHL miles at 237 games played vs 146 games for Lankinen).
4.5M is tandem goalie money. Whether its Demko or someone else paired, i think this is a decent move. much preferred over sinking 8+M into 1 goalie.
The old Canuck regime would have resigned Demko to a fat deal already and would be looking to turn Lankinen into a draft pick at the deadline and trading Silovs for a bag of pucks. Demko would then suffer the predictable career ending injury and we would be screrwed once again. I think (hope!) those days are over and our GM is ushering in a new era. IMHO this is a great deal. We keep Demko for the remainder of his contract (both out of respect and on the potential that he just might regain his Vezina form) and if he shows that he is broken forever (as I think he is) and we now get another chance to see if Silovs can cut it in the NHL but this time with a much better defence in front of him. Having watched his recent games oin Abby I predict he's going to look pretty good which won't appease his naysayers but might convince the team that the guy they need is already here. Hopefullt they don't read this board; the way Silovs has been slagged recently here is ridiculous considering it is mostly because of a 6 game stretch at the beginning of the season when the defence in front of him was complete garbage. I've been reviewing all his goal against this year and very few of them are bad goals. At any rate we will see him start a game very soon so it should be interesting. I'm pulling for him.
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They have to bring Demko back for a salary where the goalie rotation still works. Or, their ceiling case is gone imo.
This team is Hughes, Pettersson and Demko.
Incorporate Demko's injury risk into his price and make it work.
why are 10 playoff games a better sample than the 7 he's played this season? he had a sub 900 sv% and was pretty average in the playoffs. later in the Edmonton series he was meh. he got ridiculously over-hyped based on playoff/world championships success.
once you're scouted the game gets a lot tougher. in both the playoffs and world championships teams didn't have a book on him.
i personally didn't see him as a future starter. just my opinion.
going into the season I knew Lankinen would take the net as starter in Demko's abscence.
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He’s never been a standout goalie over a full season at any level of play. His save percentage in 36 OHL games was .897. His save percentage across his years in the AHL sits around .905 and has never been above .909 in a season.
That only works if Demko accepts an "injury discount", when his alternative is going to the free market.
Obviously things will change over the summer but Lankinen's contract puts him in the top 20 highest paid goaltenders in the league. if Demko is resigned they will do so knowing that their cap allocation to goaltending will be significantly higher than league average, even if Demko only gets a modest raise.
One interesting calculation: a $3.5M contract (the money most here would consider reasonable for KL) increasing each year by the expected salary cap increase of 9% (3 years confirmed, last two years assumed) works out to be total money over 5 years of around $22.8M which is pretty close to the total money Lankinen is getting on his contract at $22.5M.
One interesting calculation: a $3.5M contract (the money most here would consider reasonable for KL) increasing each year by the expected salary cap increase of 9% (3 years confirmed, last two years assumed) works out to be total money over 5 years of around $22.8M which is pretty close to the total money Lankinen is getting on his contract at $22.5M.
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Or do the old way.
Player is out xxx to xxx weeks with upper or lower body injury.
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