Eddie Munson
This year is my year. I can feel it. ‘86 baby!
- Jul 11, 2008
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All the comps you prefer, while the comps he and his team prefer put him closer to the 10 mill mark. Which is why comps are bullshit. It's whatever is favorable to your claim and not what's actually fair. Sway isn't going to sign a deal with a $6mill AAV (and Boston isn't going to give him $10 mill per), so folks like yourself need to accept that reality. The Bruins know he's not going to do that either. It's laughable to expect him to devalue himself to that extent, in fact.
I'd love for someone to find me a platooned goalie who has never started more than 43 games a year who is an RFA that signed a contract that is the equivalent to 12.5% of the cap. They find that comp and I'll sign Swayman's 10m contract myself (I'll have to scrounge together a few nickles I find in my couch but I'll make it work).
Folks like me..... namely me, are saying pay the kid 7-7.5m. Not what Sweeney offered. I've even said I wouldn't cry if they gave him 8-8.5m. It's the 10m, "setting the market" talk that irks me. It's also setting a new precedent and there are probably a handful of players who were more deserving of that over the last 2 decades than Swayman.
But we're getting into this weird realm where we can't look at other goalies that have nearly identical situations at Swayman and can't say "that's the most direct comp" without people saying "well that's just your opinion man." How is stating someones age, stats, GP numbers, and contract status, term, length an opinion or preference?
Also, if comps are bullshit and don't matter, then how does arbitration work? I'm honestly asking because I'd love to know how they randomly come to a "fair" number then.