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

[smytty]

Weekes always has a fresh fade on him

When every picture if you is only from the nose up, you gotta keep that hair tight

 

[Casper The Soy Ghost]

Why does Kevin Weeks insist on me looking at his forehead?

It's called foreHEADshadowing from now on.

 

[57special]

Very fair offer from the Rangers. Shesty probably doesn't care about winning the Cup or wants out of NY.

Probably wants to join Kaprizov in Chicago.

 

[TheBigLetowski]

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.

 

[dgibb10]

...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

 

[Reality Czech]

Send him back to Russia. With love

 

[Lupuls Grit]

We're doomed. f***ing hell I was 3 years old the last time Rangers won the cup.

I'll probably die before seeing them winning another cup.

As a Canucks fan (who was 22 years old in 1994), I have very little sympathy for you!

 

[The Grinder]

We're doomed. f***ing hell I was 3 years old the last time Rangers won the cup.

I'll probably die before seeing them winning another cup.

Correct.

 

[Frank Drebin]

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]

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).

 

[elmaco]

How many of those 3,600 minutes is he just standing there while his team is on the offense.

And then has to be ready for the save of his life in an instant? It's tough man, just give him his money.

 

[ole ole]

Good luck Shesterkin as i don't see any team that would offer more.

8x11 rejected...good luck Rangers.

 

[crowi]

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]

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.

 

[MichaelFarrell]

Good luck Shesterkin as i don't see any team that would offer more.

He’ll get 12.5-13 million probably. The cap is going up, he’s probably the best goalie in the world, and he’s UFA.

He’s going to get paid.

 

[BoHorvat 53]

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

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Franky if I'm New York, that's already too much and I let him walk and look to use that money elsewhere.

 

[NVious]

Good luck Shesterkin as i don't see any team that would offer more.

Toronto should pay 13 mill, he cannot be any worse than Tavares/Marner in the playoffs

 

[ricky0034]

i'll take it if he doesn't want it

 

[CanadienShark]

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?

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Toronto should pay 13 mill, he cannot be any worse than Tavares/Marner in the playoffs

True, but you can win a series with a skater playing like shit. You're probably not gonna win with a goalie playing like shit.

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Think most guys are more concerned with getting as much guaranteed money as possible.

Nobody wants to end up like Klingberg.

Well that’s a chance you take if $88million over 8 years isn’t good enough for you I guess haha

 

[WarriorofTime]

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.

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

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.

 

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

I will be shocked if he does not come to regret this decision.

The offer is going to stay on the table, I'm sure, he'll go around to the rest of the league, they'll tell him he's nuts and he'll sign the 8/88.