AddyTheWrath
Registered User
RNH and Hyman need to be better no doubt. Skinner, Arvidsson and Henrique aren't really being paid at the same level, although I would say Skinner is more than living up to his end of the bargain.Barkov and Tkachuk take up 1.5m less on the cap than McDavid and Drai. Florida is winning games without them even in the lineup!
We’ve got as much money tied up in RNH, Hyman, Skinner, Arvidsson and Henrique as we do in McDavid and Draisaitl and collectively they’re producing at half the rate of those two.
I’m not saying McDavid and Draisaitl are playing well. But they’re at least contributing something. We constantly spend all this money on guys who are supposed to provide secondary offense and they all fall off a cliff unless they can leach off of one of McDavid or Draisaitl.
The 1.5M difference is a bit disingenuous when you account for Draisaitl's raise. It'll be a $7.5M difference next year and an even higher one the year after.
And are McDavid and Draisaitl really contributing anything? They've mostly scored when they've had an extra skater on the ice. They also get a disproportionate amount of offensive opportunities and that disparity might not be as large on other teams. You could argue they've given up as much as they've helped.