Hyman hits 50 at age 31

Created by: jonh514

Team: 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 25, 2024

Published: Mar. 25, 2024

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$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

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I am not a fan of the ageist undertones on this site. Fans of all teams act as though players on multi-year deals heading into their mid 30s are time bombs. Basically the undertones are, "we will have to accept some years of decline in order to get access to the prime years", rather than saying, "I love seeing this player at his peak and am proud that he plays for my team".

There is very little recognition of the things players between the ages of 30-37 bring to teams. When one of those players has a good season, they are viewed as an outlier. If a player in that age range puts together multiple good seasons, they are viewed as less valuable than players who put up significantly less points because those younger players are "obviously eventually going to get there".

Case in point: Nobody is trading Cole Caufield for Zach Hyman who is heading for his second consecutive PPG season at age 31 and who just hit 50 goals.

I get it, time is undefeated! I know one day soon Caufield will outscore Hyman and that season everyone who values youth over experience will be thrilled that "the world makes sense again". But where is the recognition that "if we had 30 more goals this season, the team who lost the highest number of 1 goal games this season would probably be in contention for the playoffs".

Veteran players like Monahan, Marchessault, Stephenson have so much left to give to their teammates and to the fans. They are no more risky than playing an unproven player who was drafted in the first round and expecting them to put up 60 points for the 1st time.

Free Agent Signings

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Reinhart, Sam		7	$11,500,000

Trades

MTL

Hyman, Zach

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Not a real trade, just for illustration

EDM

Caufield, Cole

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $2,343,750 (50%)
Jake Allen: $1,925,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$87,500,000	$77,988,750	$1,022,500	$3,977,500	$9,511,250

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hyman, Zach $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 4	Suzuki, Nick $7,875,000$7,875,000 C UFA - 6	Reinhart, Sam $11,500,000$11,500,000 RW UFA
Newhook, Alex $2,900,000$2,900,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Dach, Kirby $3,362,500$3,362,500 C, RW RFA - 2	Slafkovsky, Juraj $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) RW, LW RFA - 1
Roy, Joshua $835,000$835,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Evans, Jake $1,700,000$1,700,000 C UFA - 1	Armia, Joel $3,400,000$3,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Anderson, Josh $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Gallagher, Brendan $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Savard, David $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Montembeault, Samuel $3,150,000$3,150,000 G UFA - 3
Harris, Jordan $1,400,000$1,400,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Kovacevic, Johnathan $766,667$766,667 RD UFA - 1	Primeau, Cayden $890,000$890,000 G RFA - 1
Struble, Jayden $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1
Guhle, Kaiden $863,333$863,333 ($420,000$420K) LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Pezzetta, Michael $812,500$812,500 LW, RW UFA - 1		Price, Carey $10,500,000$10,500,000 G NMC UFA - 2
Harvey-Pinard, Rafaël $1,100,000$1,100,000 LW, RW RFA - 1

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Mar. 25 at 9:44 a.m.

my_name_is_Fil

Joined: Nov. 2023

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illustrate with someone other than our little bundle of joy.

try gallagher

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Mar. 25 at 9:49 a.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

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It's almost like his massive spike in production began exactly when he started playing with the best player in the world.

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Mar. 25 at 9:52 a.m.

SupremeBone

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Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld

It's almost like his massive spike in production began exactly when he started playing with the best player in the world.

Began and has continued year-over-year since.

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Mar. 25 at 9:56 a.m.

Bcarlo25

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well, posters are right to do so. I don't think many are saying, "this guy is signed through his late 30s, therefore the contract will be bad," but more of, "that's risky." And it is. Of course it is. the vast majority of contracts like that do not age well. we see teams paying to move guys, we see buyouts, and we also see some of them work out. This site is called capfriendly....most of what we're talking about are cap implications, and the underlying economics of the league from a stance of risk.

Take a guy from my team like Pastrnak. I'm thrilled to have him on my team, but I of course acknowledge that its unlikely he's going to be worth that contract in the last few years. I'm still happy they signed it, it's just the cost of doing business.

It's kind of naive to buy a car with 160,000 miles on it and think, "this will age well." Same is true of NHL players. foolish to ignore aging trends and the data we have.

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Mar. 25 at 10:14 a.m.

palhal

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I'm one who think it's risky to sign players to long term term contracts till their mid thirties. But that's especially true for Dmen.
Hyman is certainly an exception so far. Of course if the 32 GMs had seen this in Hyman in summer of 2022 when he was a UFA, and expected him to continue this play throughout his contract, don't you think he would have been offered a 8m X 7 contract at least instead of 5.5m X 7?

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