LeBrun: Juuse Saros to sign 8 year extension worth 7.74 M AAV

[TommyDangles]

8 years for a 29-year-old goalie coming off an underwhelming season

Oof

 

[eojsmada]

This should heat up the goalie market

 

[Jared Dunn]

2/10 meme execution

 

[shaner8989]

Way too long but dollar amount is fair.
He was pretty shit this year,

 

[Soundgarden]

7.5 isn't horrible.

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

8 years for a 29-year-old goalie coming off an underwhelming season

Oof

and he still has another year on his current deal

so they're tied to him for 9 years total

 

[LOFIN]

that’s a terrible contract if you ask me

Because it was not signed by a Russian goalie

 

[ViD]

Because it was not signed by a Russian goalie

What the heck are you talking about ? I never said Bob’s contract was good

 

[BusQuets]

Why are so many high on Askarov? Other than his draft pedigree he seems like a gamble as do most promising goalies.

 

[MMC]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806508124444238078

 

[LOFIN]

8 years for a 29-year-old goalie coming off an underwhelming season

Oof

And has been in Vezina conversations for basically every other year of his career

Saros is a top-5 goalie in this league, and if Igor Shestyorkin is looking for +10mil, this is pretty cheap

 

[Top 6 Spaling]

Not the right decision by Trotz here. The AAV is fine but signing a contract of that length is a horrific idea.

 

[VanillaCoke]

8x7.75 is hella gross

 

[JKG33]

Great deal for the Preds. They can have the best tandem in the league for the next 3ish years and then trade one of them (likely Saros)

 

[Soundgarden]

Why are so many high on Askarov? Other than his draft pedigree he seems like a gamble as do most promising goalies.

He had two great seasons in the AHL back to back? General consensus is he's the best goalie not in the NHL.

So not ready for the incoming onslaught of shitty Askari's proposals. Yes, we'd love to take your second rounders, busts and crap for our best prospect.

 

[LOFIN]

What the heck are you talking about ? I never said Bob’s contract was good

This is also not the Bob's contract. Cheaper than Hellebuyck, and Saros is not that much worse.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Great deal for the Preds. They can have the best tandem in the league for the next 3ish years and then trade one of them (likely Saros)

Or they could've traded Saros at his peak and gotten a forward that the team sorely needs but yeah 3 years from now is the optimal time.

 

[JKG33]

Or they could've traded Saros at his peak and gotten a forward that the team sorely needs but yeah 3 years from now is the optimal time.

And then be looking for a goalie while going through Askarov's growing pains?

Some people in this thread have absolutely 0 clue how to develop a goalie

 

[PAZ]

Great deal for the Preds. They can have the best tandem in the league for the next 3ish years and then trade one of them (likely Saros)

I'll be surprised if there isn't a full NMC for the first ~4-5 years of the contract.

 

[Soundgarden]

And then be looking for a goalie while going through Askarov's growing pains?

Some people in this thread have absolutely 0 clue how to develop a goalie

Right. Nashville is in a great spot and don't need to rush to make a trade.

 

[LOFIN]

Or they could've traded Saros at his peak and gotten a forward that the team sorely needs but yeah 3 years from now is the optimal time.

I mean they just saw what top goaltenders fetched on the market. Markström with two years left, retained, basically nothing. Ullmark, arguably Boston took the worst of it. Saros is better than both of them, but I think this pretty much showed that there was no premiur return available.

 

[sxvnert]

Way too many years.

 

[JKG33]

I'll be surprised if there isn't a full NMC for the first ~4-5 years of the contract.

3 years was a guesstimate. Whatever the NMC years are, move him after. Askarov is still hella young

 

[rea]

He had two great seasons in the AHL back to back? General consensus is he's the best goalie not in the NHL.

So not ready for the incoming onslaught of shitty Askari's proposals. Yes, we'd love to take your second rounders, busts and crap for our best prospect.

Man I was just thinking, that if the canucks still had mikheyev, I'd totally offer him and the 2nd for askarov