Kings News: Trevor Lewis signs one year deal worth 1.325M
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Reaper45
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I agree. It would be nice to have him signed for a few years. But I'm guessing that they will lock him up going into next season (2014-15) with the higher cap. Risky move IMO, but hopefully it works out for both parties.
deeshamrock
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And with the amount of young talent in Manchester, it keeps DL's options open. It could be he doesn't want to commit beyond one year because he wants some of those young prospects to move up in 2014-15.
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But I think Lewis is a guy they hold on to going forward. He can play all three forward positions, He's one of the fastest skaters on the team , and he is huge in the playoffs every year.
Lewis has really grown on me. I cringed when he was drafted because I saw him as another one of the prototypical Al Murray/Dave Taylor era draft picks (like Steckel) that had some size and wheels but lacked talent.
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deeshamrock
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Agree but the other thing is that maybe Lewis wanted more and DL didn't want to commit. DL has a rough idea (as do most GM's) of what the CAp might go up to and if he really wanted Lewis, he'd have signed him long term. There is a reason it's only for 1 year.
Minor Boarding
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Ok deal. Lewis needs to show more scoring touch if he wants top 9 money... 14Pts career high this past (shortened) season.
The Kings probably needed to make it a 1 year deal to give themselves some breathing room for this season's cap. Lewis's UFA years will probably cost $2+million. So if he signed a 3 or 4 year deal, the Kings would have been looking at a $1.75-1.9 million cap hit.
Yeah, that's why I'm not too worried about this 1 year deal. I'm not sure, but I'm fairly confident Trevor will resign next season and for much longer. I'm real happy we have him back though. He's slowly becoming my favorite bottom 6 guy on the Kings since Lappy.
Minor Boarding
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Apples to oranges. None of those contracts include UFA years (aside from Ryan Jones, who is coming off a 7 point season on a bottomfeeder).
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Minor Boarding
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That's why his contract is for $1.325 million. If he had included UFA years, the cap hit would have been higher.
Good signing for both. Allows the kings to get potential have Lewis for less than what he could demand. Allows Lewis to ask for more next year should his production match the pace he had last year, and the cap go up as expected.
I think this is a bit much for this player. Never scored more than 5 goals and he gets over 1 million? All this comparables above scored more points or contributed more in different areas.
