I can't imagine Luke getting less than Owen PowerCan't imagine Luke getting more than Jack unless he really explodes this year.
Even then, I'd think Jack would be in his ear about taking a little discount to help the team.
Jack didn’t take a discount at the time he signed. I’m skeptical Luke takes a discount. I think they will sign him for the market rate which will still be a discount in a couple of years as he matures.Can't imagine Luke getting more than Jack unless he really explodes this year.
Even then, I'd think Jack would be in his ear about taking a little discount to help the team.
I think there's a pretty good chance this is Palat's last year here.
There's an extremely high chance that it will be next year if it isn't this year.
I don't see him still here for year 5, unless it's as an LTIR'd player. He'll either be a cap dump to someone or bought out.
And with that.....I think I just started the Palat debate back up again lol.
Where are you hearing 4.5?I really don’t understand the point of giving Mercer $4.5 million after how he played last year.
I remember the Devils Insider guys were talking about trying to lock him up long term for $7 or $8 million AAV. LMAO
Don’t get me wrong, I really want him to become that level of player, but I don’t know what it is about him that makes people lose their minds when discussing contracts.
Fitz is “lowballing” him. In quotes because I suspect it’s actually a fair offer. Mercer will hold out and eventually sign it because he has no leverage.
Yeah right. A player is going to air that dirty laundry of day to day happenings...you new?It's amazing how such extreme sandbagging by the entire organization is so obvious that the supposed player being sandbagged hasn't come out against such unfair treatment. You know, since it's right in front of everyone's faces.
Thank god it's September.
Especially considering Ruff and Green were both fired/replaced lol...I doubt coaches on the hot seat are going to say yes sir to a management request based on monetary concerns if they think something else is going to win them games and save their own jobs. And that kind of thing surely would have leaked by now, especially since both landed on their feet with other jobs.I will give Fitz credit. Setting up the cap situation, getting Mercer to have a down season, and then using that thin facade to get Ruff/Green to demote him so they can save a little in the short term so when he proves he's worth the money they can't afford him and have to trade him. That's some 4D chess man.
Yeah right. A player is going to air that dirty laundry of day to day happenings...you new?
Well it's not like Mercer himself could 'prove' it though that wouldn't stop a loose cannon agent from whining.It's amazing how such extreme sandbagging by the entire organization is so obvious that the supposed player being sandbagged hasn't come out against such unfair treatment. You know, since it's right in front of everyone's faces.
Thank god it's September.
None of what you said has anything to do with anything I was talking about.Player has never dared requested a trade for perceived unfair treatment, I forgot.
This is boring. You've had this same discussion up and down with almost every poster on here, but somehow are still the only one who witnessed things completely different from what actually transpired.
Mercer will sign. All will be fine. It's up to him to work on the areas of his game that he struggled in last year. Strength in battles and willingness to shoot. I think he will have a bounce back year under Keefe.
They ponied up after they nickel and dimed him for a year.I'm old enough to remember the whining about Bratt being underpaid on his RFA deals and how he'd never sign here long-term, and he did have extended holdouts.
And the funny thing is that they probably could've had Bratt at 6 and change on long term deal had they not nickel and dimed him.