So Boone Jenner can already be a leader to Fantilli/Lindstrom, is what you're saying. Werenski, RealGud, and Severson can be leaders for Jiricek and Mateychuk. Glad we have it cleared up.
Our young players shouldn't be in those positions to begin with, you don't throw rookies into the fire right away, guys like Monahan and Jenner have been playing in the league for a decade, they can handle rough nights and hard matchups without their morale and confidence taking a plummet, you need to temper that with kids who aren't even fully mentally developed yet.
A 50+ pt player signs for 5.5M and people are saying it's an overpay.
Well, I would have preferred for us to go after guys like Dillon or Pesce or Forbort to cover some of that as well, but somebody's teams just had to get in the way.
But Lindholm for 7 x $7.75 is a great deal. I would hate to venture into that thread. I'm sure that deal is getting skewered. I mean he scored all of 44 pts last year and looked like complete dog shit for 2 teams, but that deal is certainly going to age well because he's younger... oh wait... what? He's also 29?
For my part, I don't think it's an overpay (at least, no moreso than any other UFA contract); I think it's just the wrong target.
No, Monahan cannot handle hard matchups. He gets eaten up in them. He's poor defensively. He needs sheltered usage and PP time to be an effective scoring player. Those are precisely the minutes you want a guy like Fantilli getting. Instead, Monahan will be absorbing them.
Exactly.
Do you not understand that there is no sheltered role for them WITHOUT Monahan?
I think Lindholm would have been ideal.
So instead of spending $25M for a 50pt player whose contract will expire when all of our youth are entering their prime, we should be spending 50M for a player who produces less and will still carry a massive cap hit right when we need to sign our future?
Right... because 7 years at $7.75 is a much better deal with the young center depth coming up. SMH
Johnson and center was already a long shot but now its a guarenteed no and Voronkov doesnt need to be sheltered. It will be interesting, they may not even start Fantilli at center again. Wouldnt be completely shocked to see him share duties with Jenner and have Johnson/Chinakhov on the other side
Wennberg, as a better defensive center. Maybe Henrique altho I'm not as sanguine. I'd previously also thought Stephenson but, well, we saw what he got.
He'd have been even worse IMO. Monahan at least scores enough to stay ahead of his problems.
Cost of that would be too high.
While I wouldn't mind Wennberg, I think you get a better leader out of Monahan. Especially if you're bringing him in to help mentor your hopeful future leaders in Fantilli and Lindstrom.
