Edited Jan. 26, 2020 at 9:02 a.m.
Quoting: pharrow
A. If you think 4.9 million for a guy playing top line minutes is "expensive" than you have no idea what you are talking about.
B. His whole year is just screwy. He doesn't have a consistent partner. I have seen him paired a lot with Chara who is a pylon. Other times with Krug, who isn't really good in his own end, which is why he gets almost 70% of his starts in the Ozone.
I mean really, one guy can only do so much.
$5 million being paid for the next 3 years to a 21 year old is expensive. If you believe otherwise you have no idea what you're talking about. McAvoy just turned 22, how much more could he have been payed when he signed the contract this offseason? Boston payed him the max contract to be the best D-man on the team and make everyone around him better. I don't care how "screwy" you believe his whole year has been and neither does Boson. Boston never has cared and probably never will. That is why if you look at what Boston has done in past history, as soon as a young player's game starts to slip that they just signed (or are about to sign) to an expensive (Max) contract, Boston trades him while he still has trade value. Like what they did with Thornton, Doogie, Tyler Sagan, and many others. Boston could receive in trade around what they will give up to acquire a home town boy like Kreider or someone else. Boston probably figures they like their depth chart better with Kreider or someone else than McAvoy.
Look at the ages of the Boston players, they are a win now team. Signing a 21 year old for $5 million for 3 years is risky. As past history dictates and with Boston being a win now team, they don't have the patience to wait for McAvoy to find his game because if he doesn't, McAvoy will lose all of his trade value. Krug is a top D-man, in spite of how he plays in his own end and Chara is not a complete pylon. Sometimes inexplicably a 21 year old goes into a slump for a year or two. That's the risk of signing a 21 year old for 3 years at $5 million. Same thing happened to Skjei on the Rangers and now he's got no trade value because he went into a slump for 2 years. Now he's just finally starting to play like the player NYR signed him for 5 years at $5 plus million. The Rangers were rebuilding, it made sense for them to hold on to him and wait until he found his game. Boston is a win now team and would probably rather have a for certain dominant player like Kreider than wait for McAvoy to find his game. This is just what Boston does, they always have. To not learn from history makes you a fool. Maybe Boston doesn't trade McAvoy, but to say I don't know what I'm talking about when through out history Boston has repeatedly done what I'm suggesting might happen, is completely idiotic.