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g00n

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I think the key difference between breaks and soft tissue injuries has always been that breaks are not likely to recur due to healing back stronger whereas soft tissue is always weakened and becomes more likely to recur. Soft tissue has the added disadvantage of scar tissue creating problems.
 

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Yeah - also without a clean break, you can have multiple events where you lose bone chips, so they’re floating around the tissue causing problems, coupled with bone spurs that can interfere with flexion, and then you get a wash, rinse, repeat cascading effect over the years, and pretty soon it’s painful to walk a mile, let alone play hockey
 

trick9

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In other words, our ask for Swayman has been way more than $64 million and we were never going to agree to that number.

As it should be.

He'd look like a moron taking 8m a year when Igor will likely get 11+ within a year.

Bruins are the idiots here for moving Ullmark without having a solution for Swayman ready. This feels like someone is feeling the pressure because their season is heading towards the toilet because of that mistake. They basically gave all the cards to a guy they strong-armed in arbitration negotiations while back, and now he's going to take every penny he's going to get.
 

g00n

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As it should be.

He'd look like a moron taking 8m a year when Igor will likely get 11+ within a year.

Bruins are the idiots here for moving Ullmark without having a solution for Swayman ready. This feels like someone is feeling the pressure because their season is heading towards the toilet because of that mistake. They basically gave all the cards to a guy they strong-armed in arbitration negotiations while back, and now he's going to take every penny he's going to get.
aka Kirk-Cousining
 

895

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I find Carlson's rating fair for him at this point in his career?
 

um

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As it should be.

He'd look like a moron taking 8m a year when Igor will likely get 11+ within a year.

Bruins are the idiots here for moving Ullmark without having a solution for Swayman ready. This feels like someone is feeling the pressure because their season is heading towards the toilet because of that mistake. They basically gave all the cards to a guy they strong-armed in arbitration negotiations while back, and now he's going to take every penny he's going to get.
After seeing Draisaitl get 14 million Igor should ask for more. Goalies have been underpaid for awhile.

Even the Bruins just gave Lindholm 7.75 million. Swayman is significantly more valuable than a 2C like Lindholm.
 

Jags

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I feel like goalies have become like RBs in the NFL in some aspects. Nobody wants to pay a massive number.

Agreed, and I think it's for a similar reason -- they very often lack shelf life. In the NHL where contracts are guaranteed, it's even more crucial. If a great goalie wants top money for 4 years, let's talk. But just like every other position, when the time comes for them to get paid, they want the term, too. So it's not the dollar figure teams are balking at, in my opinion. It's that they want the huge money AND max term, which I'm not sure has ever really worked out super great for the teams in question.
 

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