Shooting the lights out maybe seems like a good thing. Kostin is the whole package and a balls out player. He had 3G just in his only playoff series in limited minutes. Could've had more if dipshit coach would have played him. Conner Brown is a small peripheral player who scored 1G in 20 playoff games. Thats next to not even being there.
Yeah, what you continue to imagine Kostin to be, and what Kostin is are VERY different things. Again, you're just grasping nothing.
The question is what are people imagining the near 30yr old Connor Brown coming off longterm serious knee injury going to be. A player that was already dropping off before the injury.
One player really wanted to be here, to contribute to a potential championship team, and took less guaranteed money in a structured deal that helps us this year. The other player blew smoke up our asses about loving it here and was all about the money. I liked Kostin, but screw him.
Fair enough. Difference is I don't think this team is winning anything. Last two offseasons I was hopeful and liked the additions and potential. I think the Oilers missed their big shot this spring. Their best shot imo. For sure I don't think Connor Brown is going to move the dial.
If it's not production based then the bonus numbers should be much much lower than this. Maybe not quite Wheeler low but certainly less than 4 mil total. If he plays 80 games and only puts up like 20-30 points it absolutely cripples our next offseason.
It’s completely fine. Brown is known to be a high character guy and McDavid knows him well. There’s no universe where this guy is a 4th liner, injuries are the biggest concern so GP totally reasonable. Also our cap situation is much better next year
Kostin has never been the same level player as Brown. Not sure why so many people in this thread are talking about a player they clearly don’t know anything about
I’ve been told by many posters here Holland is a top flight negotiator
Why not? If he thinks he's still a good player he'd agree to such performance bonuses. The just showing up bonus structure is lame.
So.
I thought the point was making a contending team better each offseason. This team instead has had to punt players because of cap. usually teams have to pare down after going all out on roster and winning a cup. We've done that without winning shit. If Connor Brown is shit he just takes up cap we really don't have and also compromises our cap for next season in what I'm hearing.
I think the difference of opinion we have here is that I don't think 3.25 million for only games played as bonus is "within reason". Like at all. If you want 3.25 million it needs to come with some goals/points, especially when none of us know how good he'll be after a major injury. Otherwise it could devolve into a situation comparable to what happened with Puljujarvi/Yamamoto last season, except even worse b/c it'd result in 3.25 million in dead cap.
But bonuses is just money to the player, they do not count against the cap, do they?
