Randy Butternubs
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Using Capfriendly, sorting active defensemen by descending cap hit, EG is #91 @ 4M, JJ is #103 @ 3.25M. With 31 teams, EG is in the #3 bucket and JJ in a #4 bucket. Yes, it is skewed by ELCs and RFAs, but that only makes what EG and JJ earn worse in comparison.
For the Pens, Letang in the #1 bucket (range of 9M - 5.5M), Schultz is #1/#2 (5.5-4.65M), Dumo/Maatta/EG #3 (4.625-3.875), JJ #4 (3.85-2.5). At #186 is 925k, mostly RFA Ds. We have been complaining about how expensive the D is and how they are aren't playing to their pay, I think this simple exercise shows that. Everyone is market rate or above. The Pens only have Riikola, Pettersson, Wideman and Trotman who are relatively cheap (< 1M) and only Pettersson is really cheap compared to his performance and is a regular in the D rotation. Pens need to get better at incorporating cheap D to balance out the glut of middle pair D that have been overpaid for their performance and stop paying market rate for RFAs and UFAs.
I was curious about using Cap Hit %:
Letang is a number 1
Schultz a 2
Dumoulin, Maatta, Gudbranson are 3s [Gudbranson barely)
Johnson is a 4
Results were the same.