Confirmed Signing with Link: [SEA] D Brandon Montour signs with the Kraken (7 years, $7.14M AAV)

[Some Other Flame]

Was that quote about the Kovalchuk, 17 year, $102m deal?

Horvat deal last year

 

[yzerman]

Crazy deal 2 mill to much per year.

 

[Turin]

Haha


That sucks man

 

[crowi]

Generational career earnings for a guy who started playing hockey so late compared to others. He is a good dude. Happy for him!

 

[DuklaNation]

Like Montour but this contract will age like milk. Don't like trend in Seattle's roster.

 

[Skolman]

Seattle is making some terrible decisions today

 

[Kraken Jokes]

That’s a lot of cash for an offensive dman who got his spot on PP1 taken by OEL !

 

[NeverForget06]

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Is this supposed to refute my point? I said montour lost his PP1 time to OEL by the end of the final series because he kept lobbing breakaway passes to Connor brown

He’s not a bad player but not 7x7

 

[Dead Coyote]

I hope Montour is able to limit the frustrating shit he pulls in Seattle, cause if he isn't having Montour/Oleksiak/Dunn in your top 4 will be a nightmare for fans. Clearly Seattle is going for it though, so I hope they at least make the playoffs. Or that they don't and the owners pull their heads out of their asses.

 

[iam76]

Hopefully he starts hitting the net again.. post shoulder surgery his shot has been all over..
But he has the heart of a lion and a badass all around.

panther fans wish him the best!

 

[Zirakzigil]

Seems a little rich. Seattle paying the extra price to get him.

 

[Lilou]

I don't know if he's worth that, but at least he's RD and can shoot a puck. Jealous.

 

[sinDer]

One word to describe this contract:

Yikes!

 

[Sam de Mtl]

I figured his team would let him walk because of his inflated numbers. He is not a top 2 defenseman. Ideally more of a #4 that is so far slanted towards offense that you need to plan around that. That's a lot of dough for such a player.

 

[KJoe88]

Holy shit

 

[pegcity]

Is this the worst contract of the day?

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Is this the worst contract of the day?

No, Edmundson. Tanev is worse.

This is probably 3rd.

 

[Vilam]

Dude fell off HARD this year. Wish him nothing but the best, but glad we aren't the ones who paid him.

 

[bossram]

Seattle is making some terrible decisions today

It's really hard to overstate how catastrophically they've hamstrung their organization today. Absolutely disastrous deals.

Montour is just not that good, straight up. He's horrific on retrievals and gets forechecked to oblivion. Because of this, he can't actually "move the puck". He relies on others making exits for him, then joining the rush to collect his cookie points. His IQ is bizarre at the best of times. And though he's played on the 1PP, he's not additive and frankly he's not good there. Empty calorie points.

They've locked in big contracts to aggressively mid players, ensuring the club remains mediocre and not good enough to be truly competitive, but preventing them from entering any of the Bedard/Celebrini/Hagens/Mckenna sweepstakes.

 

[lawrence]

I think 80% of the teams, contender or not would love to have him on your team. but not at 7 million. this is just insane.

 

[CanadienShark]

I feel sorry for Seattle. I don't think he's worth that.

 

[kanucks25]

It's really hard to overstate how catastrophically they've hamstrung their organization today. Absolutely disastrous deals.

Montour is just not that good, straight up. He's horrific on retrievals and gets forechecked to oblivion. Because of this, he can't actually "move the puck". He relies on others making exits for him, then joining the rush to collect his cookie points. His IQ is bizarre at the best of times. And though he's played on the 1PP, he's not additive and frankly he's not good there. Empty calorie points.

They've locked in big contracts to aggressively mid players, ensuring the club remains mediocre and not good enough to be truly competitive, but preventing them from entering any of the Bedard/Celebrini/Hagens/Mckenna sweepstakes.

Yeah, it's a strange roster. Almost entirely composed of middle of the lineup guys with an average age of around 30 (Dunn as the exception).

They will be "competitive" but don't have the top-end talent to be anything more than that. Unfortunately as an expansion team they feel the pressure to be good right away, especially after the start Vegas had to their franchise.

But if you just looked at them objectively, you would think they're ready for a rebuild because they're going nowhere fast.

 

[Reality Czech]

Montour will age fine with his skating. Will be similar to Brian Campbell IMO

This wasn't meant to be a compliment, was it?

 

[Felidae]

Glad we didn't resign him since I don't think his game will age well, and 2022-23 seems more likely to be an outlier than what he is going forward.

That being said, wish him nothing but the best and would love for him to prove me wrong.

 

[5 Hole]

Really appreciate his time in FL.. we'll never forget him, but wow.. glad we didn't fork that over.