And if you grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike...
We signed Sturm on day 1 of UFA as a 27 year old after he was scratched for 7/20 Avs playoff games. In 2 years, Sturm has played more games for the Sharks than he did in his career before signing this contract. Let’s not pretend that’s remotely similar to anything you’re talking about.
Yes, Sturm was a #12-13 forward (still is, frankly). His stature was a lot closer to Kyle Burroughs.
he might be into a regular role now due to his size and his point output of last year, but agree he’s much closer to 13F than how he was described in the post I quoted. We signed him because we could give him term, money, and playing time (all 3) and I don’t think anyone else was willing or able to do so. Very good piece for us right now to help lead, but at the time he was kind of searching for a role and fit in this league himself.
I'm talking about Barclay Goodrow. I'm not going to pretend Goodrow is on some different level to Nico Sturm. They both are limited contributors to their teams and largely suck. They have a regular availability to even the Sharks in the free agent and trade market. They are similar enough. There's no reason to act desperate over this level of player is the point.
I know it's probably not as black and white as media makes it, but he better be ready to play for the team that gave him the platform to play when he started and also traded him to a true contender when the time was right.
Contract termination would seem to be in order. Would be extremely, astonishingly stupid on his part, so it's not going to happen.
ok i know i'm an asshole, but am aita for thinking a pro athlete should be able to process being traded (close enough imo) to a team they didn't want to play for within like... 24 hours
Only big difference is moving across the country in that scenario but when you make $3m a year it sorta balances out I'd imagine...but yeah
I mean, a lot of these guys stopped growing up as soon as they made it to the league, so it's more like "imagine a teenager getting paid $3M to prove that he's better than other people every day. Sometimes he proves it and sometimes he doesn't but his entire life is dedicated to proving he's better than others." and then play your analogy out, "He gets sent to a workplace where he will almost certainly not prove that he is better than anyone most of the time, in fact he will look bad most of the time." could take longer than 24 hours!
If GMMG not carefully planned, it might sets very bad precedent for the organization and the young sharks players might imitate Goodrow "no show" as way pressuring the Sharks brass for a trade. Hope Goodrow shows up and plays as a professional as he is known to be.
I dont think he can pressure us for a trade because its well known hes not a tradeable contract.
There's no precedent because the player has no leverage on this situation. If Goodrow were to refuse to report, the team can just suspend him without pay. They don't have to trade him and he can't unilaterally terminate his contract. The only leverage he has is to sit out the remainder of the deal. Any of the young guys who do that risk never playing in the league again, and you'd have to be pretty damn sure you're worth it to put millions of dollars of potential earnings on the line like that.
