Confirmed Signing with Link: [SEA] G Joey Daccord signs extension with the Kraken (5 years, $5M AAV)

[JKG33]

The league is littered with goalies who got large contracts and then turned into pumpkins. Seattle literally has two of them already. Unless you have a top talent like Shesty, Sorokin, Vasi, etc. its crazy for paying a guy based on 1 good year

If you understand goaltending, Grubauer and other similarly bad contract recipients were never that great.

This Daccord contract reminds me a lot of when Ullmark signed with Boston

 

[DingDongCharlie]

My word. Market reset

 

[OmniSens]

Never did I ever expect to see him sign that much term, let alone get that much money. Good for him! Wish him nothing but luck.

 

[VanillaCoke]

yikes

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Looks like GMs are re-entering the phase of "Overpay the goalie".

In another 5 years we'll have a litany of bad goalies on worse contracts and teams will be not wanting to pay a premium for goaltending.

 

[Pucklington]

This has the potential to be a very bad contract.

 

[Malkinstheman]

If you understand goaltending, Grubauer and other similarly bad contract recipients were never that great.

This Daccord contract reminds me a lot of when Ullmark signed with Boston

What does this even mean? Grub had a 6 year track record of being a good goalie before turning into a pumpkin. Ullmark had 3-4 of good play on terrible Sabres teams.

 

[JKG33]

What does this even mean? Grub had a 6 year track record of being a good goalie before turning into a pumpkin. Ullmark had 3-4 of good play on terrible Sabres teams.

Grubauer failed when Washington called upon him, and he was simply adequate as a cheap option for Colorado. The reason the Avs had him for as long as they did was because he was "good enough" at a reasonable price. They quickly cut bait when he wanted a raise, just like they later did with Kuemper and I'm sure they will do with Georgiev.

As soon as Grubauer didn't have a contending level team to carry him like he did in Colorado and Washington he fell apart. Daccord has played much better behind the exact same Seattle team

 

[The Nuge]

A goalie (of all positions) who just turned 28 last month is starting the back half of his career?

If you do a bell curve of starting goalies, I'd say 28-32 is more like their prime.

Those are completely unrelated terms. Unless he’s playing into his 40s, 28/29 is the back half of his career.

 

[SEALBound]

I don't hate Daccord, I think he's a good goalie, and I am happy for him. But I HATE this contract for the league. With such a fickle position and the general decrease of overall talent, I don't think it's healthy for anyone to be handing out 5yr deals.

 

[n8]

I think Seattle was one of the few teams that has a tax free state and could take on a gigantic Igor Shesterkin sized cap hit but this should put them out of that category.

 

[ATdaisuki]

He was the goalie prospect we had that I liked the most. I was really sad to see him get picked, but I'm glad he's finding success in Seattle. Hope his play continues to improve and he makes this contract look like steal!

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

The goalie market is so fricked right now.

Teams with high end goalie prospects are praising the hockey gods and hoping by the time their deals come up the league has cycled back to not wanting to pay goalies.

 

[NYR94]

Yikes

 

[dirtydanglez]

i dont like this for seattle. good for deaccord tho. sets him up nicely after years in the ahl.

 

[Ace Card Bedard]

Can tell a lot about who understands goaltending vs those who don't in this thread. Daccord is an excellent goalie and it's shown in the difference between him and Grubauer on the same team. 5x5 is a great contract

Nobody understands goaltending.

They're too inconsistent from year to year.

 

[CanadienShark]

Uhm that's a huge deal. Yikes.