Confirmed Signing with Link: [EDM] Darnell Nurse signs extension with the Oilers (8 years, $9.25M AAV)

[ItWasJustified]

Nurse is certainly worth 8m

Nope, and my answer will always be nope.

He's not wrong though.

According to me, he is.

 

[DepressedSharksFan]

...This might be worse than Erik Karlssons contract.

I'm lit

 

[Lebowski]

What’s a fair price for Nurse? In my mind he’s a 6M-ish player.

 

[Wanderson]

Seems a little high for 14 points.

How much would you have paid Erik Gustafsson after his 60 pts season with the Blackhawks? 11M AAV?

Playing D isn’t about scoring points.

 

[JABEE]

He has his best season in a shortened year playing only against the other Canadian teams.

This deal bought off UFA seasons, but this seems like above market value. The Oilers must have been really worried he would just decide to leave after next season.

This deal looks bad now and will look even worse next off season.

 

[Dellstrom]

At this rate Charlie McAvoy is going to be the highest paid player in the league next year

 

[GreeningOil]

1.25 too much on the AAV

 

[WesMcCauley]

Nurse is a good defensemen but is he really a great defensemen? Sure 7+ million i would understand, maybe even up to 8 because he will be UFA when this contract expires, but 9+ million for Nurse? Thats very expensive imo.
He can score which is valuable and rare for a defensemen but 9 million is a lot...

 

[GoLeafsGo96]

Goodbye Morgan Rielly - it was nice knowing you.

 

[Llamamoto]

What’s a fair price for Nurse? In my mind he’s a 6M-ish player.

He's not a 6 million player. He's been a top pairing D for some time and just had a Norris worthy season playing extremely tough minutes on Edmonton. He didn't even get pp time and still managed to put up a 50 point pace.

On an 8 year deal I think a Chabot-esque deal would be fair, around 8 million. 9.25 is pretty high, but he's worth wayyy more than 6 million.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Posting this chart without context is everything wrong with analytics.

If you watched both players all season and came away thinking Bear was a better player then I question your ability to judge players with the eye test.

I personally love confident takes that are just horribly wrong.

 

[IslesBro715]

? I was expecting maybe 6-7 mil per. This is crazy.

 

[XXIV97]

What’s a fair price for Nurse? In my mind he’s a 6M-ish player.

Probably closer to $8M. Oilers shot themselves in the foot by signing bridge deals.

If we lost Nurse, say good bye to the next 2 or 3 years

 

[CupofOil]

Nope, and my answer will always be nope.

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Based on? He played 25+ minutes last season with minimal PP time, was one of the top even strength scorers in the league and was a +27. That alone is worth easily over 8m if Hamilton and Jones are getting 9m+.
Of course he's relatively unproven in the #1 role so he'll have to do it again and again to be worth the 9m+. He's been getting better every year so I don't see why it won't continue.

FTR, I'm not arguing that 9.25m isn't an overpay currently. He's certainly worth 8m though, you'd have to have a bias against the player to think otherwise.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

This is what I would consider to be the opposite of the Adam Pelech signing. Holland is a master negotiator against himself.

 

[The Moose is Loose]

The crazy thing is I don’t really think Holland overpaid here, he just had no options/leverage. And this is coming from someone who is no Holland fan by any means.
Nurse had the Oilers bent over the barrel, and frankly given his attributes and recent season- he definitely would have been able to get this contract in free agency.

Obviously no discount for the Oilers though.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Holy f***in shit

 

[Contenderorpretender]

Wtf happened. That's just an insane price.

 

[Gabe Kupari]

The north division wasn't great. Giving guys contracts like is rumored coming off career years playing the same 6 or so teams a bunch is gonna bite ppl in the ass. 9 million for nurse? Yeah Edmonton will never win just like Toronto. 4 guys if you throw in Hyman takes up almost half the cap. The leafs approach is odd.

 

[Techcoockie]

Nurse is not a true #1 and is not worth 9M lmao, again Oilers seem to be heading in a bad situation with their salary. AGAIN lol.

Petry at 6.25M is what Nurse should get

 

[Hammettf2b]

Ken Holland everybody. Ken f***ing Holland lol

 

[Voight]

9.25 million is freaking insane for Nurse.

HoLOLand strikes again.

 

[Sugi21]

An argument against bridge deals if I've ever seen one.

Well it goes both ways! Chiarelli made the right gamble when he gave Drai the monster extension even though at that time his best year was 29 goals 77 pts but had he bridged Drai can you imagine what he’s making now? I’m guessing Chia saved Oilers at least $2.5 million minimum. Point being bridge deals are gambles

 

[780il]

Jones and Werenski f***ed us god dayum

 

[Clark4Ever]

The going rate for defencemen has spiralled out of control this off season.