Speculation: Shesterkin on contract: I love the team, I love the fans so of course it will be great to stay here. But you never know what’s going to happen

[dgibb10]

Lmao. This term means nothing anymore. “Generational” in 3 playoff runs, yet no Cups or even finals appearances; imagine that.

The rangers have been atrocious in the playoffs in front of him.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Gonna be the highest paid G in the league surely

 

[pld459666]

it might have to be a buyout depending on how airtight trouba's NTC is

It won't be a buyout. There were extenuating circumstances around why Trouba blocked a trade in July.

Hes a goner and he knows it.

 

[IWantSakicAsMyGM]

It's the most important position in hockey and the only one really that can win and lose you games.
The whole goalies are voodoo is used by many fans as a reason to keep their cost down is crazy to me.

Sure they might have a few outlier careers but so does every athlete in sports but the top tier of goalies imo should be paid similar to what a top of pairing dman gets.
In this case particular, he's the best player on the rangers, he's their superstar who imo is the reason they win as much as they do and for that reason he deserves to be their highest paid player.

I agree it's the most important position in hockey, but to me, that's the reason to have a good tandem in net, so that if there's an injury or one isn't playing well, there's still a viable option that keeps the team competitive enough to win games. Having a $10m+ starter makes it much less likely that your team will have a decent backup, and a single injury could derail your entire season.

 

[HBK27]

The asking price if he becomes available will be interesting. How much is one of the best goaltenders in the game worth knowing what his contract demands are?

I just can't see any realistic scenario where Shesterkin would ever be on the trade market.

Even if they can't come together on a contract this season, the Rangers would have to ride it out and just hope for the best after this season. Maybe even let him test the market as a UFA and hope his demands come down if it actually comes to that.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

There is simply far too much demand and nowhere near enough spots to make it worth paying even 10M let alone 12M in most cases. Shesterkin is incredible but is he really 2.5M more than Vasilevskiy or 3.5M more than Hellebuyck? Even if you argue he's better, it's a near negligible difference.

I also sincerely doubt any team will offer him that despite his resume. So unless he can create a bidding war, I don't see him getting 12M

Vasi signed a sweetheart deal in a no tax state.

His deal if Shesterkin signed for same % would be 10.7 million for next year.

Cap is also going up rapidly now and not flat.

So yes I do think Shesterkin should get what he is worth.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Sounds like a guy already trying to let them down easy.

I wouldn’t give him $12M, but he’d get it on the market and he’s so valuable to the team I don’t see how they could afford not to give it to him.

 

[Breakers]

$12 million for 51 starts roughly


LOLOLOL absolutely brutal use of a cap structure.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

He’s been good, not spectacular, in the playoffs since, and about league average in the regular season. That isn’t worth a record breaking contract, which always end up being mistakes, even in the best case scenarios.

You are using your own conclusions and letting them get in the way of the facts that exist here.

He has over a goal saved above expected per game in his career in the playoffs. That's like the other team starting a game with -1 on the scoreboard. That's absolutely spectacular. .8 per game in the regular season usually wins you the Vezina. Anything more than 1 is absurd hockey. His playoffs in his career are virtually on par with his 2021-22 season.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Welcome to Toronto

Nah we got Woll

 

[Master P]

Nah we got Woll

Leafs nation if they have even the slightest possibility of landing Shesterkin...

 

[Khelandros]

The asking price if he becomes available will be interesting. How much is one of the best goaltenders in the game worth knowing what his contract demands are?

The asking price would be absolutely zero. The Rangers could never trade him this season as that would guarantee a missed playoffs, and then he is a UFA once the season is done.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Leafs nation if they have even the slightest possibility of landing Shesterkin...

I take Woll + 9M of cap space over Shesterkin

 

[CanadienShark]

Just posturing, they will get him signed, but the contract won't be pretty.

 

[yzerman]

You can also read this as "I like the fans,I like the team and if i get the money i want i love them forever but if I get more from a another team i love them even more.

 

[Crow]

I take Woll + 9M of cap space over Shesterkin

Would you rather have him or marner?

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

You can also read this as "I like the fans,I like the team and if i get the money i want i love them forever but if I get more from a another team i love them even more.

Not really. If that’s what he’s saying, he’d just say he’s going to UFA and will take the highest offer. Plenty of athletes say exactly that, or leave out the highest offer part (while insinuating that’s the deal). He didn’t say anything of that sort.

This is a complete nothing statement. People trying to find anything in this are trying to drum up drama for the sake of it.

 

[CanadienShark]

He wouldn’t not report, but by the agent taking that posture it pretty much turns the partial no trade into a full no move. To actually file a grievance he’d have to go through with it. Some words in the media or threats with front office talking to his agent doesn’t lose him his money. It just acts as the clause he doesn’t have because no one would want to trade for that problem.

That's the kind of leadership that a true captain shows.

 

[CanadienShark]

Right, but he just turned 30 and with how NHL teams covet big, physical, right handed defensive defenseman then Trouba obviously would have a market and wouldn’t purely be a cap dump, even in the worst possible scenario where he’s cooked and can’t bounce back to any of the good hockey he’s played over the years.

You make it sound like Nurse also has value. Trouba is an awful player with an awful contract. He has negative value.

 

[Nothingbutglass]

I take Woll + 9M of cap space over Shesterkin

and then start Stolarz the next 79 games after Woll tears his hamstring bending down to adjust his skate?

 

[yzerman]

Not really. If that’s what he’s saying, he’d just say he’s going to UFA and will take the highest offer. Plenty of athletes say exactly that, or leave out the highest offer part (while insinuating that’s the deal). He didn’t say anything of that sort.

This is a complete nothing statement. People trying to find anything in this are trying to drum up drama for the sake of it.

Well if you say thoose words he said you take a "paycut 9-10 million for the team not aim on the absolut highest crazy number.The feeling is that is to greedy and want 12+i know it is all about the business but it feels a little to greedy for the love of the team.

Personally i would not give him more than 9 million for 7 years.

 

[Cheapshot]

Even if he stays for less than he is worth that doesn't guarantee a cup and it would be funny if he signed for <10m just for the rangers to overpay some other guy.

Would be on par for the rangers that’s for sure.

 

[TGWL]

12m isn't too bad until you attach 8 years to it. That's the problem. Most goalies just don't live up to that consistent 12+ years at a top3 or so level. I'm not saying he can't, but he's turning 29 and it's very risky. Rangers don't have much life left with this core and nothing about the new wave currently screams president trophy competing teams.

 

[TGWL]

If the rags don’t give him 12 who else would? Doubt many teams would be willing to trade what it would take and then sign him to a contract like that.

It would be a trade for his rights, slightly before free agency most likely. Rangers aren't in a position to trade him during the season, unless the season took a wrong turn from what the organization expects. So it would be peanuts as far as value in the trade, but enough to justify a team potentially getting him before he reaches free agency.

 

[Fatass]

Team’s best and most important player. Rangers need this guy. His teammates know how much they need him. Better buck up or it’s curtains.