I do too. Hell of a good dude, but put too much pressure on himself to live up to his contract. Funny how some people can rise above the challenge and others seem to make more and more mistakes, despite their best efforts.
Because retention will end sooner. Who says it would be 2.5M? This season they have Brown’s bonus, Perry’s bonus, Neal’s buyout, and now Campbell’s buyout. That’s what 7M? That’s a significant player. That’s just a bad way to do business. All this is my opinion, of course. You are entitled to yours.
That's not a lot of cash to fill out the lineup. A bunch of guys are going to need to take 1 mill and that's it.
Yah I hear you and I see the stats. Just haven't seen his play enough to determine if there is a player there or not.
I think there should be some sort of situation where you can get out of a bad contract once every 2 or 3 years or something like that. There are situations like reoccurring injuries that make a player all but useless, but not actually injured anymore, so you can't LTIR them. I think a situation where the team still has to buy out the player, but that buyout doesn't count against the cap would be a win/win for the teams and the NHLPA. If you made it a rare thing, only available once every 2 years or something, it would help all teams with cap flexibility and wouldn't hurt players at all when it comes to money. It might even HELP players on the whole, as you'd have teams willing to take chances a bit more on players, which would help drive up average salary a bit.
Agreed, but by the same token we don't want a lot of turnover, just a few upgrades here and there IMO.
Yep, me too. Was desperately hoping he’d have a Tim Thomas late-bloomer type of career, but nope.
I think a lot of analytics folks were baffled. He was terrible the last half of that year, his high danger save % was nothing to write home about, his xGA weren’t great. Honestly, if they had an analytics department or a goaltending department they would have know to stay away.
Same here, I thought he would solidify what was shaky before, and he did not
It's gotta be a combination of bad scouting and buying into the Leafs hype.
Dead cap isn’t an investment when it lowers your overall cap space. Dead cap is literally a punishment for poor management. Calling it an investment is like saying your Tesla stock is down 30% so you’re jumping ship and calling your stop loss an investment. Your overall portfolio is down. You lost money. Sure you freed up some money to buy other stock- but you’re buying power is way less.
Offer him the Ekholm rehab program. I think there’s good potential with him still
He was, no exaggeration, the worst possible goalie for us to sign that offseason based on analytics profile and I said as much the weeks leading up to him hitting free agency. Did well into low/medium danger shots and had decent puck freeze stats, near the worst in the league for high danger shots, bad goals saved above expected, bad consistency, bad against tips/deflections. Then he came here and somehow couldn't stop low danger shots or freeze pucks either (probably Dustin Schwartz effect). As for the goalie department thing, we could literally hire the Rangers and Islanders staff combined and it still wouldn't matter b/c Dustin would find a way to ruin them anyway.
Hockey gods…oilers fans endured, packed the arena when the team sucked…for 10 years and Florida wins. Edmonton and its fans deserved this cup
See if he’s interested in a one year show me contract. Could play up the lineup then you move Ceci.
