You asked me if I think players should play for free and that's not the narrative I was talking about. I just do not like paying Necas $8M. He's not that good. You can try to justify his next contract all you want. I disagree on the player value.
That was in response to you saying that it bothers you that Necas is trying to cash in.
Every single professional athlete is looking to cash in. I'm not sure why that bothers you. Players have a limited amount of time to make a lot of money, of course they want to cash in. There's nothing inherently wrong with that.
This fear that a player is just going to cash out and coast is something that happens rarely.
Also, once more, I NEVER said that Necas should make 8M$, you've come up with that number yourself because it helps drive home your narrative. It has been reported that his market value is around 7.5M on a long term deal.
I think that's more than reasonable and in line with players in his class.
You're disagreeing with yourself on his value because no one is saying pay him 8M.
What bothers me is you think I think the players should get less and the owners should get more. NOPE. It's a 50/50 revenue split and I like that. Necas is too expensive to acquire in a trade and too expensive on his next contract. He's lined himself up well to cash in and I think it's going to be overpayment on both the trade value and contract. Simple as that.
There you go again creating narratives to justify your argument that I haven't even debated, I haven't even mentioned owners. You keep talking about 50/50 revenue split and I honestly don't know why lol.
You think acquiring Necas is too expensive from an asset's perspective?
OK, although we don't know exactly what it will cost, but i'd agree with you given the number of teams interested, the cost will be high and probably prohibitive from the Habs perspective.
). He wouldn't have to be playing every game, obviously, but the inter division stuff in particular he could help with a lot.
