Jack signed a contract that could have been a potential overpayment when he signed it. Now it looks to be the next MacKinnon contract. When his contract is up when he’s 29, god only knows how much the cap will be; who knows, maybe he gets another 8 year deal at 15 per.
Who says they want him to take below market value? All signs are pointing to Fitz wanting to see one more year before throwing big money at him, which he's now seeing. For all we know, Bratt is the one being unreasonable and asking 9.5.
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11. I wouldn’t say New Jersey is the team to beat on Timo Meier, but it’s clear teams know the Devils are very much in it. The biggest balancing act for them might be their salary structure. It sounds like they prefer to have no forwards above Jack Hughes’ $8M AAV — or at least not blowing that out of the water. That’s not only a consideration for Meier, but also Jesper Bratt.
They really need not to act like this, but hopefully not blowing out of the water is still somewhere in the late 8's or 9s. Cant be losing out on Bratt and Meier because you don't want to pay league min (750k) to a depth piece (1.5) above Jack's AAV.
I don’t at all disagree with anything that person said other than the 0-1-5 in regulation.
Well, I guess I understand that, but to use the column for regulation just seems a bit misleading. He could point out no regulation wins in the last 6, but I really don’t understand why he would use 3 columns in regards to regulation results lol.
NJ is a good but flawed team. Depth scoring is an obvious issue. It’s still a work in progress. Old man Hischier is 24. Jack is 21 Mercer is 21 Nemec and Luke are teenagers. Schmid is 22. Holtz is 21. It’s not and was never going to be a finished product this season. Having better results than expected doesn’t change the nature of the team . Who before the season was predicting anything beyond a bubble season? They have gotten better results but in some respects they are still a building team . During the games it can be frustrating to watch but the future remains bright. This is a team finding its way not some NYR team that is peaking and about to start wobbling as its main forward start to age.
You are correct, I was responding to a bunch of stuff on Twitter and the blogosphere, not on HFBoards. Sorry if that was not clear.
He pretending OT is a tie.
If it's a long post, I think we're permitted by American law to refrain from reading it. That being said, @Triumph has had a longtime pastime of critical replies to my posts, which is all well and good and also clearly permitted by American law.
You are absolutely a genius. No one disputes this.
I personally find you in particular unlumpable.It was clear. We were just offended that you lumped us in with them
We miss your regular contributions. Hopefully all is well with you.
It was clear. We were just offended that you lumped us in with them
As an extreme buy low candidate that's still relatively young I don't think it's a bad idea.
