He just signed a huge contract and looks like a shy 50-point player now. I'm honestly not sure there's much of a market for the guy until he improves his game. If you bet big on a guy and he doesn't progress as expected... that's a long time all of a sudden for a middling guy. The worry is they guessed wrong on him and fans have buyer's remorse. That, and the Vancouver market is a little nutty in the first place.
About 5 or 6 canucks fans came in here offering Petterson, not the other way around.
Easy decline, not close
He’s also been better playing with a 20 year old rookie with 6 games of professional experience. Almost like if he gets better when he needs to pick up his teammates slack
Great idea, let's give up 4 unprotected 1st round picks while being the worst team in the league. Can't see that backfiring spectacularly.
You're buying UFA years, not RFA years in this case, with a rising cap. You'd also have to put it out of the range where we would want to re-sign him, so an offer sheet only starts to work around 10M, which is 2 unprotected firsts, a second and a third.
If it was that easy he would have gotten an extension offer by now, but it's pretty clear the Isles don't want to.
I think the point is if you offer 8 or less the Isles will just match it
you're reaching. there are some things to work out with the isles cap situation and if I was Dobson I would probably bet on myself and try and hit 60+ (or 70) again. not a lot of consistent 60 point defensemen out there, I would say 8.5M is the baseline for that.
I don't know about Islanders, but it seems pointless for Buffalo.
That looks about right value wise. Personally I don’t love any of those players, but that looks like it gets the job done if Lou does.
