bert
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Tough to answer in a blanket statement. Id like them to be making next to nothing but ill gladly pay Vasilevskiy 9 million.
I think the Leafs and Oilers have it the other way around5-6 on starter, 1-2 on backup
The value of anything in life is what someone is willing to pay for it.Tough to answer in a blanket statement. Id like them to be making next to nothing but ill gladly pay Vasilevskiy 9 million.
Is that really so? If Prime Hasek gets 3M, you know that he is not happy. That would likely backfire.
I brought the RB in my own OP. But seeing the kicker arguments by JagerDice, I am compelled to buy in that concept more.RBs are the best comparison
There’s about 5 really good ones, and everyone else makes due with platoons
Helle is good. But man, you jets have him way too high. Because you want to promote a high trade value. Not happening.To keep Hellebuyck I'd probably go up to $10M
For some average starter, around $5-6M
I brought the RB in my own OP. But seeing the kicker arguments by JagerDice, I am compelled to buy in that concept more.
Helle is good. But man, you jets have him way too high. Because you want to promote a high trade value. Not happening.
I have seen Hellebuyck play plenty. Not really sure what is so elite. Definitely not that much better than a random starter. He has the reputation, but especially in the playoffs (since 2018) I have not been convinced at all. I am not saying he is bad. But worth 10 mil? No way! More like 5-6.I'm not promoting anything - pretty sure no opposing GMs are reading this thread
It's because elite goalies are so hard to get (and especially to convince to come to Winnipeg) and we suffered through Pavelec for too long so I'd overpay him to get him to stay and build around that.
Let me describe a position to you.
There is one per team. This position factors into most of the points a team scores every game.
The natural assumption would be ‘wow, that must be a very valuable position, they must be very well paid’.
Nope. Its the NFL kicker.
And they arent paid very well because the gap between the very best on the market and the baseline competence a team needs to succeed is very small.
This is the same for goalies. Only a moronic front office would pay through the nose for a .930+ goalie when they could better leverage that money towards other positions and pay much less for a .915 goalie that is good enough to win.
The gap between elite goalies and ‘good enough’ goalies is smaller than any other position in hockey.
How bout now ?I’m well aware that goalies are overvalued within the NHL and hockey culture, Im not sure I needed a video to prove it.
You havent actually presented any arguments to counter my position that the gap between elite and good enough goaltending is insufficient to warrant spending large sums on goaltenders.
There’s a reason few goaltenders are paid over 8mil for more than 5 years and damn near every team that goes beyond those bounds regrets it.