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No doubt this is related to him still being a UFA.
There were two prominent NHL UFAs who you just new were going to have have trouble getting what they thought they might be worth.
Kadi and Klingberg.
Here we are.
No doubt this is related to him still being a UFA.
What about NBA player Dennis Schröder? Lakers offered him 4 years $84 millions contract. He and his agent turned it down. At the end he had to accept 1 year $5.9 million contract at Celtics because basically all teams had used their cap space. Sometimes opportunities come and go.So what? He’s a pro hockey player not a pro accountant. He’s supposed to be able to trust this guy. Mackinnon can write his own ticket anywhere, it’s a horrible comparison.
Islanders have Pulock Dobson at RHD, Rangers have Fox Trouba Schneider, Devils have Hamilton Marino Severson Nemec, Calgary has Andersson Weegar Tanev. All the teams you listed don't want / need a RHD, except for Dallas, who really do.Well, as a Ducks fan I would be happy to have him but on a 1-2 year contract. We could offer more dollars, probably. On the other hand, I don't see why a more competitive team wouldn't give him some similar deal at the worst. What about Isles, Rangers, Devils, Flames, heck... even Stars. They seem to have some cap space.
Well, as a Ducks fan I would be happy to have him but on a 1-2 year contract. We could offer more dollars, probably. On the other hand, I don't see why a more competitive team wouldn't give him some similar deal at the worst. What about Isles, Rangers, Devils, Flames, heck... even Stars. They seem to have some cap space.
Makes sense, thanks for clarifying.Islanders have Pulock Dobson at RHD, Rangers have Fox Trouba Schneider, Devils have Hamilton Marino Severson Nemec, Calgary has Andersson Weegar Tanev. All the teams you listed don't want / need a RHD, except for Dallas, who really do.
I'm expecting one of John Klingberg, Mackenzie Weegar, Seth Jones, Erik Johnson or Tyler Myers to end up in Dallas before the season begins.
The most obvious candidate to ship out is Faksa (3 year contract), but it requires him waiving his No Trade Clause and a lot of teams don't want to take on that contract. Chicago would take it in a Jones deal if he waived. I'm starting to speculate about Jamie Benn going for a $5m or $6m player to a team with a bit of cap space. I dunno.Makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
It looks like Dallas have 11.5M cap available but with Robertson and Oettinger still to be resigned. Any notable RD would mean them moving something out, right? Anaheim might end up not being a horrible fit at all, given the circumstances
The word on the street (and Bjorkstrand deal) is that money is extremely hard to move right now, so yeah might not be as easy for Dallas.The most obvious candidate to ship out is Faksa (3 year contract), but it requires him waiving his No Trade Clause and a lot of teams don't want to take on that contract. Chicago would take it in a Jones deal if he waived. I'm starting to speculate about Jamie Benn going for a $5m or $6m player to a team with a bit of cap space. I dunno.
To get back to signing Klingberg, they would probably have to dump Faksa or Benn or Pavelski or Suter or Seguin or Lindell. First two could happen, next two less likely, and final two quite unlikely IMO.
I'm starting to question how Dallas plans to add a RHD in this situation. Analyzing it all logically, mind keeps drifting back to Seth Jones (Faksa + Pavelski/Suter/Lindell or Jamie Benn in the deal). Perhaps they simply don't add anyone.
Karlsson got 8 x $11.5m starting at age 29.
Doughty got 8 x $11m starting at age 29.
Bobrovsky got 7 x $10m starting at age 31.
Kopitar got 8 x $10m starting at age 29.
Gaudreau got 7 x $9.75m starting at age 29.
Ovechkin got 5 x $9.5m starting at age 36.
Backstrom got 5 x $9.2m starting at age 33.
Pietrangelo got 7 x $8.8m starting at age 30.
Couturier got 8 x $7.75m starting at age 29.
The most obvious candidate to ship out is Faksa (3 year contract), but it requires him waiving his No Trade Clause and a lot of teams don't want to take on that contract. Chicago would take it in a Jones deal if he waived. I'm starting to speculate about Jamie Benn going for a $5m or $6m player to a team with a bit of cap space. I dunno.
To get back to signing Klingberg, they would probably have to dump Faksa or Benn or Pavelski or Suter or Seguin or Lindell. First two could happen, next two less likely, and final two quite unlikely IMO.
I'm starting to question how Dallas plans to add a RHD in this situation. Analyzing it all logically, mind keeps drifting back to Seth Jones (Faksa + Pavelski/Suter/Lindell or Jamie Benn in the deal). Perhaps they simply don't add anyone.
Karlsson got 8 x $11.5m starting at age 29.
Doughty got 8 x $11m starting at age 29.
Bobrovsky got 7 x $10m starting at age 31.
Kopitar got 8 x $10m starting at age 29.
Gaudreau got 7 x $9.75m starting at age 29.
Ovechkin got 5 x $9.5m starting at age 36.
Backstrom got 5 x $9.2m starting at age 33.
Pietrangelo got 7 x $8.8m starting at age 30.
Couturier got 8 x $7.75m starting at age 29.
Maybe he should have played better. Hopeless to blame the agent. Agent is working out of how a player has performed and future potential. Some future potential is harder to "sell" than others.
Highly doubt it's the agent that tells him. The agent does not decide. It is the player.People keep dogging the player for wanting too much. seems to me most of these guys have little to do with it and follow the agents advice 100%. I highly doubt this is the player wanting more money than what was offered, way more likely the agent told him to hold out and now some offers have gone off the table.…and the player is finally trying to regain some control of his destiny.
1. Kadri is rumored to have some agreement in place.Kadri just had the best season of his career, yet he's in the same boat as Klingberg.
Sometimes it's the agent.
The offers, if any, must be pretty low.
Highly doubt it's the agent that tells him. The agent does not decide. It is the player.
Most likely is that he himself has not been happy enough with the offers received because as some mentioned he has been paid a little bit too little to this point and is expecting a better deal because of that now.
Others GM's won't necessarily give that, heck the GM from your own team often doesn't honor a previous "agreement".
1. Kadri is rumored to have some agreement in place.
2. Yet many GM's don't think he will have that same standard in a different team as well as getting 35+, I wonder why that is...
I think it’s very rare a player fires his agent because he’s arrogant or not understanding of the market because they want more. It’s human nature associated to the job for it to be the other way around. The agent promises the world, most players just wants to play and do the best they can financially and most of them trust the work to the agent.
Yet the market is the exact same now as it was yesterday. So new agent that he supposedly trust more has the same to work with as the other guy.Way more reasonable and likely is the agent gave advice that’s backfired and the player is worried about his future and this being the one time he really had control to pick a life for him and his family. Hes trying to fix the situation and put it in the hands of someone he trusts more now. He went with a big agency, doubtful it’s full of agents he can push around to do his evil bidding. Its full of pros that are telling him what the market is now and what they can do for him, and he chose that.
If he thought he was getting that much it’s highly likely he was told he was getting that much.Yet the market is the exact same now as it was yesterday. So new agent that he supposedly trust more has the same to work with as the other guy.
I think he wanted 7 x $6M at minimum or even more and the only offers he has gotten has been max 5 x $5.25M-$5.50M range.
Which has very little to do with the agent and moreover more to do with his play, age, and future potential.