Rumor: Per Kevin Weekes. Shesterkin rejects NYRs $88M / 11M AAV offer

TheBigLetowski

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This guy has KILLED my Canes the last two meetings in the playoffs. I think he's the best goalie in the NHL, If anyone deserves the top $$ it's him.
 
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dgibb10

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...and how many of the top goalies in the league actually win the Cup? A well-constructed team that has depth can absolutely win without blowing their wad on a goalie.
The 2 highest paid goalies currently playing both have won cups in the last 4 years tbf
 

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I mean, you can keep pretending teams like Anaheim/Buffalo/Detroit/Montreal/Ottawa/Utah can't afford this, but they absolutely can.



Between him and Weber they managed to take a team that shouldn't even have been in the playoffs to an SCF.
Still was a terrible deal. Price has been retired for 3 seasons and there are two seasons still left on his contract. Just because both sides were able to get out of it doesn't mean it was ever a good deal.
 

NVious

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He has 3 playoffs with 930 sv percentage,1 vezina and is in his prime that's a 12-13 million dollar player.

In Toronto we have 3 guys basically earning that that have had 0 playoffs out of 8 (Marner/Tavares/Matthews) as good as one run of his.

I would take him in a heartbeat over Marner and Woll (12-14 million comparable).
 

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As a regular mortal it's hard to understand how he could turn down $88M. Is It for a few million more or just change of scenery. Normally players want to play in NYC.
 

ole ole

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That is nuts

Rangers time to look forward to post Shesterkin era at this point

And frankly that contract is absurd offer to begin with as he only had 1 elite year and has been pedestrian since and will turn 29 in a couple months
The age is age scary part. I would want him at that price.
 

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If that’s the case he’s not crazy at all lol

He is, because of how easily injuries occur - look at Demko for example, if the injury he has sustained happened to Igor where they're saying he's going to have to deal with it for the rest of his career, that has to affect his value significantly + his play might drop
 
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CanadienShark

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And does that prove goalies age better than any other position like his claim?
Do you need a list of more goalies that played a high level late into their career? Do you need to see the chart citing statistical peaks for skaters?
 

WarriorofTime

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A team literally just won a year ago with a journeyman backup, and no, I would not pay the top goalie in the league what the likes of Matthews/Draisaitl/MacKinnon/McDavid/Makar are getting/will be getting.
To play devil's advocate, how many of those players won the Cup on $10+ million dollar contracts either? MacKinnon was at $6.3 million when the Avs won the Cup with him as first line center (very cheap), but nobody says don't pay him because $12.6 million is too much as long as he gets his 140 points even if the team loses in the first or second round. But for a Goaltender, the team has to win the Cup for the contract to be "worth it". Doesn't make sense.
 

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To play devil's advocate, how many of those players won the Cup on $10+ million dollar contracts either? MacKinnon was at $6.3 million when the Avs won the Cup with him as first line center (very cheap), but nobody says don't pay him because $12.6 million is too much as long as he gets his 140 points even if the team loses in the first or second round. But for a Goaltender, the team has to win the Cup for the contract to be "worth it". Doesn't make sense.

Oh I 100% agree on that.

But doesn't mean teams aren't still going to pay their players that.
 

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