under 5 ????
I’m 6/40
Go to cap friendly and tell me on the UFA list which player better than him is coming in under 5 who is good
I landed on 0.0
Bergeron & Pastrnak want him here I’m good with that
This is your error I think. You're trying to replace exactly Debrusk next year with a UFA. And you're trying under 5 (which let's be honest is somewhat arbitrary). And you're trying to get an exactly Debrusk player, also arbitrary. Someone else on the team can play his PK minutes from the bottom 6. That's not irreplaceable.
For the sake of some quality hockey talk, just on UFA, let's moneyball it:
Bertuzzi two years at 5M
or
Henrique two years at 4.85M?
or
Anthony Duclair 3 years at...4.5M?
or
Warren Foegle 3 years at 3.25M? (plays on Drai's wing)
If someone does decide to give Debrusk 6.5 to 7+M, how many points are our replacement guys coming in at below him? For some of those names the answer might be 0. For some maybe.....7? You can't look at that and feel comfortable that Debrusk outscores Duclair by 15 goals or 20+ pts on our squad. And that's the problem.
We don't need to find exactly Debrusk next year. We have to find 25 goals, plus or minus 5 goals.