And then you get some organizations that don’t do that. Organizations that actually make good decisions on not giving huge contracts that won’t work out, and who actually do that without, say, dumping franchise defencemen who want two years. Competent organizations run by people other than Bergevin.
Not really...it's inevitable. I think you can find "bad" contracts on pretty much every team.
Again, the players are playing the system too you know?
Teams use the CBA try to keep salaries down, players use the CBA to try to drive salaries up.
Said it earlier, the Tampa Bay Lightning won back to back Cups with guys like Tyler Johnson or Barclay Goodrow or Yanni Gourde on "bad" contracts, hell one can argue Steven Stamkos fits that bill too...did anyone care?
Of course not...they won.
Pro sports are tough, most of the management is incompetent, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t aspire to more.
Of course not...but I think it's important to not get too caught up in this subjective stuff of who has a "bad" contract stuff either.
It would be amazing to have 23 amazing value contracts but that's not realistic, the system ain't built that way. The system is built to control player costs early and for as long as possible and then vested players tend to get their end at some point.
The Huberdeau example is a perfect one...no one actually believes he's going to fulfill the value of that entire deal. The Flames are banking on immediate dividends while putting off the financial burden his deal is going to surely bring.
I mean not even the Flames believe he's going to be a 90+pt player when he's 35yrs old.
But if he puts up 100pts next year again...no one will care that it's a bad contract and even if he does get 100pts, it's still a bad contract.
