Dreger: Speculation that Panarin asking price is just over $12 million a season

[NYRFANMANI]

No thanks to 12 million, bladj.

 

[Beezeral]

 

[jcbeze]

Forgive me if it's already been said..


that's a lot of bread

 

[TaketheCannoli]

That may not be the case for someone that needs a center

Actually, even then. Panarin drives a line, is a beast on the boards and plays defense. Panarin does a lot more than just score. Having watched them on the same team, it's not close.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

That may not be the case for someone that needs a center

Nope. Panarin is such a higher impact player than Duchee that Team Needs go right out the window on this one. If the money is close for both of them, I don't think a single team would be better off with Duchene than him.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

For 94 million dollars why wouldn’t an owner just pay a team of Genetic Scientists to clone Gretzky?

 

[Leaf4Life79]

Pretty sure the jackets won a round this year. Its was a big story.

And this has what to do with my post?

 

[Avsboy]

For 94 million dollars why wouldn’t an owner just pay a team of Genetic Scientists to clone Gretzky?

It opens up too many legal and ethical questions. Who "owns" cloned Gretzky? What does society do with cloned Gretzky? How long to teach the clone the game of hockey again?

 

[RickyLafleur]

Breadman gets paid

 

[Pablo El Perro]

For 94 million dollars why wouldn’t an owner just pay a team of Genetic Scientists to clone Gretzky?

Per league rules, said clone would enter the draft in 18 years or so, if all goes well. Thus all that effort would be a crap shoot.

 

[robertocarlos]

Not a penny over $11 million. See playoffs.

Edited to $11 million because of cap.

 

[Seanaconda]

Not a penny over $9 million. See playoffs.

So one playoffs of the last four didn't have an over 9 mill player win a cup.

5 playoffs ago we didn't have a double digit player in the league .

It's gonna change now that there will be like 10 ? 15 ? Next year

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Not a penny over $9 million. See playoffs.

In a world of contracts signed in the past year by Tavares, Skinner, Matthews, Hayes, and so on, Panarin is getting a few more pennies than 9 million.

 

[robertocarlos]

I just thought he could have done better in the playoffs but it is a team game. If he gets 12 million I don't know what to think.

Edit: He was better than Duchene though.

 

[egelband]

It is, though a player like Panarin might have at least twice as much endorsement opportunity in NYC. Not $6.5m over 7 years, though. I think Nash had something like $150k in endorsements per year.

Nash is not the name of a major food group, though. There's a lot of Nutrition Pyramid money dying to be spent.

 

[Legion34]

So dreger thinks that panarin makes 12.... but teams are lining up to pay Marner 14?

Poor guy is just out of the loop now

 

[robertocarlos]

There are going to be a lot of players that are priced out.

The players playing 2nd/3rd line minutes are going to want to get paid $7-8M a season. Which just won't happen.
The Maximum amount that can be spent on NHL Contracts is: $2,526.500,000

There are 1134 players under contract. (some on 2 way deals, and in the AHL and all that jazz, I understand)

The top 150 players make: $1,024,088,305 - Almost half.
The next 151-300 players make: $631,330,499

That leaves about 800 players fighting over just over $900,000,000

And that's if EVERY team spends to the cap. Which we all know will never happen. (Last year was $2.337B)

I'm just saying the infighting for the NHLPA is going to be nuts.

Great post. I think the middle class gets squeezed out. 150-300, 50 of them join the top tier and 100 of them join the (relatively) poor.

 

[pb1300]

It is, though a player like Panarin might have at least twice as much endorsement opportunity in NYC. Not $6.5m over 7 years, though. I think Nash had something like $150k in endorsements per year.

Endorsements are just not a thing in the NHL. I believe the highest paid player last year for a bit over $3 million. I don’t see him getting anything near that.

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

New York Rangers suffer apparent miscue while trying to court top free agent | Fox News


Yikes

 

[egelband]

Great post. I think the middle class gets squeezed out. 150-300, 50 of them join the top tier and 100 of them join the (relatively) poor.

Sounds familiar.

 

[egelband]

New York Rangers suffer apparent miscue while trying to court top free agent | Fox News


Yikes

Hahahahahahaha.

 

[Papa Francouz]

I’d give him that contract in a heartbeat to join the Avs.

 

[Boud]

New York Rangers suffer apparent miscue while trying to court top free agent | Fox News


Yikes

Am I the only one who doesn't see anything wrong here? It's a template and they just put his face on it.

Who cares if they had him shoot right or left.

 

[RalphyDanger]

For 94 million dollars why wouldn’t an owner just pay a team of Genetic Scientists to clone Gretzky?

We can rebuild him, we have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.

 

[trellaine201]

It won’t happen BUT I would let all these RFAs SIT!