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100% agreed. Very happy to get 4 more years of MP, and the price is good IMO.
Great deal. Perreault is insanely underrated.
50 point guy /82 games, slot in anywhere. But do the jets REALLY need him, (laine,little,connor,scheifele,ehlers,wheeler) could've put the 4 mil into a dman or a trouba extension.
Whether he plays 60 or 70 games he's probably going to be good for 40 points...
40 points is significant to some degree... but isn't this a bit of an overpayment?
I'd feel better describing a player as a 50 point / 82 game guy if he ever hit 50 points or played 82 games. Neither of which he's been close to so far in his NHL career.
Well this is the year that the Jets have some actual depth to their scoring talent. Much of last season MP was weighted down by non top 6 players (Burmi, Thorburn etc...). This year he's either riding shotgun with Little and Laine or centering a 3rd line that should feature Kyle Connor. Either way I see him hitting the high end of his points.
In 2015 he had a 4 goal game (almost had a 5th goal but hit the post... it cost a fan a million dollars on a contest). If he plays 70 games and stays in the top 6 then we could see him hit career highs.
Plus he does so much more than score.
I doubt there is any Jets fan that is upset with this.
If he can actually play more then 3/4 of the season jets are stoked
I am blown away that a player that is always hurt, or playing hurt, gets a contract like this.
That and the fact that he is awesome for about 20 games a season then produces nothing for the rest of the games he manages to play in.
It's like being a left-handed picture in baseball I guess, some idiot GM will always pay you because you are a "spark plug" type player.
Personally, I think he's worth about 3.600 because he's often injured, but would be closer to 5.000 if he was always healthy. This is kind of right in the middle, so it's probably fair.
As for UFA's... I think it's generally a good idea to overpay up to about 0.500/year if they are important to the team. That's an amount that can be saved elsewhere, and MP does make the Jets a better team.
I am blown away that a player that is always hurt, or playing hurt, gets a contract like this.
That and the fact that he is awesome for about 20 games a season then produces nothing for the rest of the games he manages to play in.
It's like being a left-handed picture in baseball I guess, some idiot GM will always pay you because you are a "spark plug" type player.
Whether he plays 60 or 70 games he's probably going to be good for 40 points...
40 points is significant to some degree... but isn't this a bit of an overpayment?
grossly overpaid
grossly overpaid
Well this is the year that the Jets have some actual depth to their scoring talent. Much of last season MP was weighted down by non top 6 players (Burmi, Thorburn etc...). This year he's either riding shotgun with Little and Laine or centering a 3rd line that should feature Kyle Connor. Either way I see him hitting the high end of his points.
In 2015 he had a 4 goal game (almost had a 5th goal but hit the post... it cost a fan a million dollars on a contest). If he plays 70 games and stays in the top 6 then we could see him hit career highs.
Plus he does so much more than score.