I don't think we are seeing the evidence you necessarily think. I'm seeing more evidence last year was a career year based on play this year, and he is turning 32 this season, and still under contract for $8M for another 5 years.
agreed with this, I won't say Gold doesn't know some things but he has missed the mark on some stuff and the current FO group is much more tight-lipped than Don or JR were. I won't say he's wrong but that mostly just comes down to a matter of odds than anything.
It kindof depends on 2 things IMO. 1 - if the projection that the cap could be upwards of 110 mil here in 2-3 years changes the math on how the value of a contract like Miller holds up in his years 5-7 contract wise (IMO it does), and 2 - if they think what we see is what we get with KK at this point when, back in 22-23 when these rumors were first surfacing the FO might have thought there was more development we could get from KK that just hasn't appeared to happen. Especially since KK had a hot start in 22-23 (again, when those rumors were going around the first time) but since has looked like a 30-40pt player despite being given significant opportunity with 2 of our 3 most offensively gifted players in Necas and/or Svech, never really clicking with both or either.
It even represents a dollars-to-productivity gain if we can send KK in the other direction. There's more value in JTM at $8M than there is in Kotkaniemi at $4.8M, even factoring in the potential buyout.
Agreed. I like his post game shows and do listen to his podcasts a bit. He will call out things more pointedly than Mike/Tripp on player weaknesses.
Yup, once NYR got the Trouba contract taken away for peanuts, it's become clear that anyone can get out of a bad contract if they want. If Miller works here, great, if it doesn't, there will be another team out there who will bring him in for whatever reasons they have at the time, especially if Miller has a year or 2 of very good play here.
oddly I never had THAT much of an issue with Mike on the radio, other than he simply had bad hot taeks at times. To me he never came across as caustic to anyone that wasn't that way toward him to begin with (the "hurrr durrr you're from Buffalo just admit you're a Sabres fan" crowd). There's times where I was going "you have no idea what you're talking about with that take" but that's another matter entirely.
Adam is always looking for a fight, presents himself as the biggest genius in the room that we are blessed to have talking to us, and if you disagree, he'll look for any way to deflect the conversation away from his words and onto how he can just invalidate you.
The condescension, in particular, can be a bit much at times. I shared his post because it was a reply rather than a primary one from him for clicks.
Or maybe a reminder of the uninterrupted decade of missing the playoffs by a mile
It just gives them so much more ways to matchup against top teams in the playoffs when you can throw staal over to check a first or second line and then next comes Miller and all of a sudden you’ve got aho matched up against a third line. Would give Rod 4 centres who are all over 50 percent on draws and all 4 can kill penalties
