Confirmed Signing with Link: [VGK] F Brett Howden signs extension with the Golden Knights (5 years, $2.5M AAV)

[mundyc3]

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[BHawk21]

Good for him.

 

[Breakers]

25% shooting percentage and Vegas is like lets start negotiating

Ok?
dont understand locking up guys to these terms

 

[BKarchitect]

25% shooting percentage and Vegas is like lets start negotiating

Ok?
dont understand locking up guys to these terms

22.2%. At a paltry 11%, cut his goals in half and he’s still contributing offensively while playing 15 minutes a night including PK and offers positional versatility at any spot up front including the ability to be a real face-off taking center when needed.

He may have sucked in New York as a bottom line player but he’s definitely a third line, versatile player in Vegas (he’s actually 6th on the team among forwards in even strength TOI/G) and $2.5 cap hit is pretty insignificant for that kind of usage. At age 26, 5 years doesn’t even take him out of his prime.

Seems like a pretty decent deal for both team and player here.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

It's a joke. And you know it's a joke. And you're being purposely difficult by either playing ignorant or taking the joke literally by refusing to acknowledge that jokes are often rooted in some form of exaggeration.

Oh. Haha.

 

[BLNY]

That seems like a fair bottom six contract.

 

[mundyc3]

He has shown the ability to play up and down the lineup, at center or wing. This level of flexibility at this price will be amazing going forward.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

Solid deal for both team and player.
This year he is playing really well so far but let's say he becomes that 30 point forward. A 30 point forward that can play anywhere in the line up and any position. Is very valuable to have. If he only played wing I don't think he'd get this deal.

 

[VEGASKING]

I was expecting AHL fodder with the way Rangers fans talked about him but he has massively surprised in his time here. He had 9 goals in 47 games strictly playing 4C in his first season here. Nobody expects him to keep up the current scoring pace but for 2.5m he doesn't need to to exceed the value of the contract.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Odd considering the cap increases. Wouldn't an established bottom 6 player ask for 2 or 3 years and hope their value is significantly higher by that 5th year?

 

[Raistlin]

that is one damn good, locked up but expensive blue line. And they still have Nic Hague to extend.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

that is one damn good, locked up but expensive blue line. And they still have Nic Hague to extend.

Howden is a Swiss army knife bottom six forward.

 

[Casper The Soy Ghost]

He was ass for us (Rangers fan) but I'm happy for him. Sometimes a change of scenery does wonders.

I was expecting AHL fodder with the way Rangers fans talked about him but he has massively surprised in his time here. He had 9 goals in 47 games strictly playing 4C in his first season here. Nobody expects him to keep up the current scoring pace but for 2.5m he doesn't need to to exceed the value of the contract.

Tbf he as awful for us.

 

[Team_Spirit]

Odd considering the cap increases. Wouldn't an established bottom 6 player ask for 2 or 3 years and hope their value is significantly higher by that 5th year?

Bubble guys like him are better to secure the bag asap

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Good for him

 

[Jared Dunn]

Decent deal for a guy who can move up to the 3rd line, hope this kinda sets the table for Jake Evans.

Is Kolesar as good as gone?

 

[Sky04]

25% shooting percentage and Vegas is like lets start negotiating

Ok?
dont understand locking up guys to these terms

He's 26 years old, they're signing him for essentially his entire prime at 2.5m. Not sure where the issue is.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Rangers should have kept him.

 

[seafoam]

Rangers should have kept him.

Could have sworn Ranger fans were calling for his head on a spike and said he wasn't NHL material.

 

[Raistlin]

Howden is a Swiss army knife bottom six forward.

shoot... Im thinking Ben Hutton....

 

[RangersFan1994]

Could have sworn Ranger fans were calling for his head on a spike and said he wasn't NHL material.

Rangers rushed him without time in the AHL. He did well considering the rebuild and his playing time. He wasn't that bad. Id rather have a young player that is inconsistent over an overpaid vet that is also inconsistent

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Odd considering the cap increases. Wouldn't an established bottom 6 player ask for 2 or 3 years and hope their value is significantly higher by that 5th year?

Kelly McCrimmon has apparently had the voodoo stare the last few weeks insofar as being able to lock in decent players (McNabb and Howden) at favorable prices.

Howden has been yet another successful reclamation project for the VGK insofar as he sucked at NYR but blossomed here. Seems like 3/4th of the team are these second-chance guys.

Have damaged goods willing to go at bargain-basement prices? McCrimmon is interested.

 

[CanadienShark]

I don't hate the deal. Seems good for both.

 

[habsterr]

Too much term for a bottom 6 forward, even though he is a good one. Decent deal for both sides.

 

[Dirty Dog]

I don’t know why anyone is complaining about term, Vegas has no intention in seeing a long contract play out