The moment McDavid and Drai signed those contracts, it already sealed the fate of the team moving forward. It comes to no surprise that most of our depth will consists of rookies, AHL, and over the hill players. It'll be this way until the cap goes up to 90M
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frag2
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He’d be a good player in the finals. Have a player that is good at running over goalies
Yeah he had 12 more points than Maroon and did it while not playing with McDavid.
Goals are important but he isn't scoring 27 sniper goals. He is the kind of guy who is good at rebounds and crashing the net.
His HIGHEST goal total outside of last year was 11. You do not pay a player like that $5mill+.
If he repeats that and bumps up his assists than absolutely you have an argument. But after 1 year that was a VERY large outlier in his career...yeah its overpaid.
It would be an easier arguement to make if RNH, Lucic, etc. weren't such bums that Maroon was outproducing them in many respects.
It's not easy to ask really your 3rd best employee to accept a salary that's the 5th or 6th highest on the team.
His agent can very easily point and say "hey my guy is outproducing this guy who you're paying $6 millon dollars to". It's also why Leon's agent was never going to budge on his salary demands ... why should he take only a million measly more than Nugent Hopkins or Lucic when he clearly was far better than them? You have to be careful who you pay money to because it will be used as a comparable.
If you can get Maroon locked in at 4 per ... (5/5/5/3/2.5) I think you have to do it. If Strome has to walk for nothing so be it. If Kassian has to go, so be it. We're not going to get a top line LW off the UFA for less than $6 million.
Unless you want to play Drake Caggiula as McDavid's LW and gamble a season on that working.
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Maroon (4) McDavid (12.5) Puljujarvi (0.985)
Lucic (6 UGH) Draisaitl (8.5) Yamamoto (0.98)
blank (1) RNH (6) Kassian (1.9)
blank (0.9) blank (1) Khaira (0.7)
blank (0.7)
Klef (4.1) Larsson (4.1)
Nurse (4) Sekera (5.5)
Russell (4.1) Bear (0.9)
Gryba (0.9)
Talbot (4.1)
Broissoit (1)
Poops (1.3)
= 74 mill, but that's tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. And your bottom six will be thin, and you'll just have to live with that.
If I was working in a section of that company that thrived because of the hard work someone else was doing for me, I wouldn't say a damned thing.
That's not even including bonuses
Goes to show you that some players should be taking discounts.
Would you take a discount if it means not getting your coworkers and friends laid off or milk as much money and see your company go bankrupt?
He's apparently too busy trying to trade/waive Jussi Jokinen.
Good job Peter... your team is 28th with a bullet and you think the solution is tinkering with your fourth line.
That's the hockey equivalent of putting a pair of used socks on Kijiji.
Just another player we took a risk on and didn't turn out. Makes our off season look even worse. Might as well of just kept Pouliot. Now we have his buyout for 2 years and are looking to throw away his replacement. Yikes.
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Chia is looking like a colossal failure at this point. The one move people were actually okay way has failed miserably. Jokinen doesn't even look like he belongs in the NHL. People were propping him up as a defensively sound player but he clearly hasn't even been that this year.
Jumptheshark
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well it looks like Chia Pet is about to hit the panic button
thise concerns me
he usually gets taken to the cleaners when he does that
thise concerns me
he usually gets taken to the cleaners when he does that
So Shipachyov is done in Vegas?
They have a ton of cap room going forward for Lucic and we can retain, we need to ask Milan if he'd be OK with going there. Family can move in to LA.
They have a ton of cap room going forward for Lucic and we can retain, we need to ask Milan if he'd be OK with going there. Family can move in to LA.
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WHY the f*** are we shopping Jussi now? I mean, what's that gonna do, get us a top 6 scorer?
Slepyshev, I can understand. Jokinen, not so much.
Slepyshev, I can understand. Jokinen, not so much.
it doesnt really make sense. Only reasonable explanation is Pitlick wanted to test the UFA market and wouldnt resign here
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