Michoulicious
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I know he's 21 but in every pic I see he looks at least 29.
Agreed. Disappointing sophomore year (like lots of the Kraken TBF) but he's too good not to be at least a high-end #2 with an all-weather game.Sophomore jinx got him, but his work rate is so f***ing high, and he has pretty good tools to go with that, he'll be worth his contract, and perhaps more.
Nailed it. Combined with many of their wave of top draft prospects playing out the last year or two of their ELCs, Grubi’s contract off the books, etc, they could have some serious cap space to load up and go for a deep run.I like these deals, but (and I have no concrete examples at the moment) the team's that sign them tend to not make any noise until the back half of them, sometimes when there is a year or two left on these deals.
If I am a GM signing this contract, I am looking to compete for a conference championship for like legitimately 6/7 years of this deal.
I think it's just a waste if you are not trying to compete immediately. You've clearly identified a core player that you think you can win with. Why waste time? Go for it...otherwise why sign the deal? For ownership?Nailed it. Combined with many of their wave of top draft prospects playing out the last year or two of their ELCs, Grubi’s contract off the books, etc, they could have some serious cap space to load up and go for a deep run.
Once again the majority are proclaiming it's a great deal for the team, so if these long-term deals based on promise are always great deals for the team, why does the player agree to them?
This should be looked at as a great deal for Beniers. He's proven nothing to earn $50m. What happened last year erases his early success and puts him back into needing to prove himself to earn this much money. I think the broader question is whether or not Beniers is even that good in the first place. That Michigan team was so deep that the danger is automatically believing that all of them are good independently of each other. And it's been a similar story in Seattle. Their high tide lifted all boats in his rookie year. His boat sank the hardest when the tide rolled out last season.
Definitely go for it. Anything can happen in the playoffs. I’m just saying the financial and developmental stars appear set to align through the back half of Beniers’ new contract, and you have to think there’s some legitimate groundwork now in place to say they could be cup contenders. The roster will have young blue chip talent having accrued some meaningful NHL experience while their ELCs provide cap space for veterans to balance out the roster.I think it's just a waste if you are not trying to compete immediately. You've clearly identified a core player that you think you can win with. Why waste time? Go for it...otherwise why sign the deal? For ownership?
With the cap going up in the next few years, that deal is almost a guaranteed bargain. In 2-3 years, he ends up signing for 9-10M because the cap has gone up, he has nothing to prove and your buying off more UFA years.I don't like this deal. I don't understand why teams don't take advantage of bridge deals.
Sign the player for 2-3 years at a lower cap hit, make sure he's the real deal and then sign him to the 7 year deal when he's closer to free agency. You get some cap savings and control the player longer.
This deal pays him big money before producing big numbers and he's a UFA in 7 years.