Value of: Dylan Strome's next contract
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GAGLine
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It's a tricky situation. He has accumulated his points (20 at even strength and 14 on the PP) with Backstrom out. Now that he is back, how will that affect his ice time? I looked at the 6 games Backstrom has played and based on ice time, Strome seemed to be relegated to the 2nd PP unit in at least half of them.
If I'm the Caps, I'd probably be looking at something like 4.5 mil for 3 years.
If I'm the Caps, I'd probably be looking at something like 4.5 mil for 3 years.
Poor Strome. All he does is produce when he's placed on a 1st line with skilled players, Yet no one believes he can keep it up, yet he keeps doing it only to be scratched/moved around/traded,
bert
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No one is giving him that. He's too slow doesnt drive the play. I think he gets 2 million on a one year deal.
So How much worth a center with 15 + goals and a 60 pts per season ?
Comparable:
Sam Bennett 4.425 M / year
Alex Wenneberg 4.5M/year
I really think it will be around that
bert
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More to hockey than stats. Bennett is extremely physical and has a great motor, polar opposites. Wennberg isnt a very good contract either.
Calling Strome a 60 point center when it only happens when he plays with generational talents then gets healthy scratched when they are healthy isnt a 4.5 million dollar player.
Hivemind
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Did Strome dump your sister or something?
The healthy scratch was utterly perplexing, and 95% of the Caps fanbase was up in arms about it. Lavi has also been healthy scratching Anthony Mantha, using who he scratches recently as a judgement of player quality isn't a great barometer.
Strome has been the Capitals second best forward, after Ovechkin, basically all season. He's outplaying Kuznetsov by a mile, and the Ovechkin-Strome-Sheary line carried the Capitals back into playoff contention after a slow start. Strome was also producing early in the season (even when many other Capitals weren't), while on the second line away from Ovechkin. So his production isn't 100% reliant on Ovie, it's just that he's the best option for the Capitals to play with Ovie right now considering Kuzy is having a mediocre-at-best season and Backstrom is still finding his way back from his hip surgery.
Strome is very easily a $4.5M+ player. The only hang-up on his next contract will be term.
bert
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Glad he is having a great year riding shot gun. He did it in Chicago too, but he inevitably ends up getting replaced. Happened in Chicago and its happening now with Backstrom.Did Strome dump your sister or something?
The healthy scratch was utterly perplexing, and 95% of the Caps fanbase was up in arms about it. Lavi has also been healthy scratching Anthony Mantha, using who he scratches recently as a judgement of player quality isn't a great barometer.
Strome has been the Capitals second best forward, after Ovechkin, basically all season. He's outplaying Kuznetsov by a mile, and the Ovechkin-Strome-Sheary line carried the Capitals back into playoff contention after a slow start. Strome was also producing early in the season (even when many other Capitals weren't), while on the second line away from Ovechkin. So his production isn't 100% reliant on Ovie, it's just that he's the best option for the Capitals to play with Ovie right now considering Kuzy is having a mediocre-at-best season and Backstrom is still finding his way back from his hip surgery.
Strome is very easily a $4.5M+ player. The only hang-up on his next contract will be term.
Chicago didnt even qualify him.... Because no one was going to give anything up for him in a trade at the salary he was projected to make. I dont think that much has changed unless he has added an extra gear.
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Well considering he is an rfa it's really what Washington wants to do
For the next two seasons, the Caps already have $17M allocated to Backstrom ($9.2M) and Kuznetsov ($7.8M). If Backstrom never returned from his injury and was headed for LTIRetirement, then signing Strome to term would be no brainer. Now, it's not so simple.
It is true that Lars Eller is coming off the books in July ($3.5M). The thinking had always been that Connor McMichael would succeed Eller at the #3 pivot position. Could you decide to re-up Strome at about $4.5M and medium term, trade McMichael for futures or other immediate help, and double down on the veteran roster? It's possible, but I think they want a roster infusion with youth. That might entail well-seasoned youth in the AHL, perhaps, but younger players nonetheless.
It is true that Lars Eller is coming off the books in July ($3.5M). The thinking had always been that Connor McMichael would succeed Eller at the #3 pivot position. Could you decide to re-up Strome at about $4.5M and medium term, trade McMichael for futures or other immediate help, and double down on the veteran roster? It's possible, but I think they want a roster infusion with youth. That might entail well-seasoned youth in the AHL, perhaps, but younger players nonetheless.
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I agree with everything here except I’d try the following;
- Let Eller go.
- Trade Mantha at a slight loss for picks without retention.
- Resign Strome in the range you’re talking.
- Continue to bring McM along slowly but more in the Bigs next season.
With Backstrom still in the fold for several years the Caps are going to be overloaded at C. Strome might be better value than Backstrom over that time. Either way I’m not sure you CAN let Strome go without a similar NHL C to replace the Strome/Eller element.
True. I'm just not sure there's a market for a Mantha trade. The kinds of sweeteners needed to make the medicine go down could be punitive. I'm not thrilled packaging him with a second rounder, for example. Yet that might be what they feel they need to do.
I might prefer a buyout of his final year.
I might prefer a buyout of his final year.
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Players like Mantha don’t grow on trees. With retention, I bet they could find a ton of teams willing to take a chance on a 6’5, 235 pound power forward. He’s been bad but he’s still showed some glimpses of the 25 goal man he has been before. I wonder how he’d do @50% retention on the leafs.
While I agree and think Wennberg is a bit overpaid, he has actually been very solid doing all the little things for Seattle.
He plays in all situations and leads the forwards in icetime, and Seattle is currently a top ten team.
He's light on generating offense, but he is close to earning his contract based on his overall two-way play. Comparing him to Strome, (just like Bennet), is a bad comparable as well, because Wennberg's value to Seattle is more than the sum of his point production.
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I doubt they give him an 8 year deal, but crazier things have happened.
He's a restricted free agent at 3.5m right now. The Caps would be smart to sign him to a 4 or 5 year deal at 4 million. The could also offer him a 10% raise (QO) for next season. They hold his rights
CapsFrontOffice
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That's ridiculous. He makes 3.5m now as a RFA. He HAS to be paid at least 3.8 in a QO.
That would be a low ball and not in line with a 1st line guy, but I could see him being tired of moving teams so often and taking something of a low ball in order to stay somewhere.
Not a low ball offer at all. That is what he is DUE in Restricted Free Agency. A QO need only be 10% higher than his current salary to keep his rights. I DO believe he is arbitration eligible, so the fact that he is playing 1C or 2C, but typically 1C would mean that an arbitrator could really hammer the Caps. I believe he will sign a 3 or 4 year at 4.5m before the end of the season
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