Good deal. Love how fans of other teams come in tell everyone why it's a bad deal. Lol
I hear you. This isn't the case of Flyer fans selling it to each other after the dust settles.
I'll post the poll that's been posted already in this thread by another member. Voted on by Flyer fans before the deal was done. A whopping 92% voted for 5.2 for 4 years and it came in at slightly less than that number.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2108175
As a Flyers fan I'm ecstatic he's back for 4 years at a fair number.
Fact is everyone understands it's a market value contract for a RFA. If he would have been on the open market he would have gotten more from an organization with the money to do so. It helps fuel the haters that the Flyers locked him up and kept him off the open market.
No one is claiming it's a steal just market value or there about considering monies already paid to other players in his situation.