Hunter Gathers
The Crown
The Fish Sticks are probably the only team I could see offering Hank 10+M per year (as a cap number).
Henrik Lundqvist; will he stay or go?
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The Fish Sticks are probably the only team I could see offering Hank 10+M per year (as a cap number).
Hunter Gathers
The Crown
Philly can't fit him with the Cap. Chicago would have to buy out a number of players or trade them. Pittsburgh the same. Too much work for those teams to fit Lundqvist.
irunthepeg
Board man gets paid
Ah okay. I think if any of those three teams traded one of their high end forwards to make room, they'd be of more benefit with Lundqvist in the back end to steal some games for them though.
Wang and Snowstorm already got all ridiculous when they signed Goalie 2021 to his asinine contract. Would not put anything past them where Hank is concerned.
broadwayblue
Registered User
I'd give him 8. He doesn't have to be our #1 the last year or two. But he's the most important player on this team for the next 5 for sure.
Hunter Gathers
The Crown
My main thought with that is that it's just too much work to fit one player. Chicago, especially, has built their team around skaters. I don't see them changing up their system that much.
Chicago has already been covered in this thread. Philly is already 3.2 mil over next years cap, with 8 UFA's and 3 RFA's to be signed.
You're right about Chicago, and Detroit has built their team around skaters too. So has San Jose. And Pittsburgh. And Boston.
Things that make you go hmmmm......
Hunter Gathers
The Crown
Trust me. I am with you on that one. That's why I have an 8M max for Lundqvist. And even then I cringe a bit.
You're right, we get it, we should trade our entire roster and get some good skaters that can hold the puck and score. Getting rid of Lundqvist and adding a 3 mil goalie won't change anything other than we'll end up getting scored on a hell lot more. We need to change a huge part of the current roster.
You've been saying you don't want Lundqvist here unless he resigns for that he has now or less for like 5 pages now, WE GET IT.
Hunter Gathers
The Crown
It's a public message board. Stop acting like your posts are the only ones that should be on it.
We get it. You don't want to read certain things. Put JG and myself on your ignore list so we don't bother you so much.
Yeah it's a big chunk o'change, around 11% if the 2014-2015 cap goes up to 70 million from 64.3.
If I'm Sather I see if any goalies (Loungo) fall victim to compliance buyouts and go from there
Hunter Gathers
The Crown
I can't say I disagree with that logic. At least it could give us a bargaining chip.
Except that I didn't say anything above that you attributed to me.
But hey, why let the truth get in the way of a perfectly illogical rant, right?
Hunter Gathers
The Crown
The sick irony is that our defensive team would probably have won a Cup pre-lockout (if we had the same team as we do now). Oof.
Want to tell me the salaries of the Cup Winning goalies since the 04-05 lockout? I can pretty much guarantee that aside from Tim Thomas the majority had team friendly contracts.
Let me first say that I LOVE Hank, and hope to heck we find a way to re-sign him to a cap-friendly contract that works for both Hank and us. Nothing would make me happier than to see Hank hoist the Stanley Cup in a Rangers uniform.
That said, I think it's fair to note that these are currently the highest paid goalies in the NHL in 2013:
1. Rinne - Nashville - no playoffs
2. Lundqvist - New York - won one round.
3. Price - St Louis - knocked out in first round
4. Ward - Carolina - no playoffs
5. Miller - Buffalo - no playoffs
6. Backstrom - Minnesota - knocked out in first round
7. Kiprusoff - Calgary - no playoffs
8. Bryzgalov - Philadelphia - no playoffs
9. Luongo - Vancouver - knocked out in first round
10. Thomas - did not play
Just sayin'...
That said, I think it's fair to note that these are currently the highest paid goalies in the NHL in 2013:
1. Rinne - Nashville - no playoffs
2. Lundqvist - New York - won one round.
3. Price - St Louis - knocked out in first round
4. Ward - Carolina - no playoffs
5. Miller - Buffalo - no playoffs
6. Backstrom - Minnesota - knocked out in first round
7. Kiprusoff - Calgary - no playoffs
8. Bryzgalov - Philadelphia - no playoffs
9. Luongo - Vancouver - knocked out in first round
10. Thomas - did not play
Just sayin'...
PlamsUnlimited
Big Church Bells
8 million IMO even is way too much. But if we want Hank we will probably fork that over to keep him. That's not to say don't sign him. However, Sather and friends should start to research some damage control strategies just in case...
Of course. But what would change? Unless we fire Tort to change the system and add some players that actually perform, we'll most likely be in an even worse situation than we are in now.
Hunter Gathers
The Crown
Who is after Thomas? I am basically counting him out right now. Just wondering, to be honest (I don't know).
