Quoting: bhavikp27
" This is just toxic thinking for a team.
Detroit doesn't pay Krug for his performance on Boston. They pay him for their future returns. "
That's how it works in the NHL. You get paid based on what you did the year/years before (UFAs). Look at the 2016 deals, most of them are all disaster but it is like that in the NHL. I know it's wrong but it is what it is.
" So yeah, go ahead, think like a fan. Think bad decisions is how a team should be run. "
Think like a GM*
You don't think teams are learning from those mistakes? Are you kidding me. There are many teams not making them anymore. Who let guys walk.
When you can sit here and say "I know it's wrong.....garbage garbage garbage"....then the GM knows it's wrong too and is trying to avoid it.
Quoting: justaBoss
Obviously they pay for Krug's future performance, but unless you have a f*cking time-machine in your backyard, GMs have no option but making the offer based on their past production.
Krug's production in the pasts easily justifies paying him at least $7M a year on a 7-year contract.
He is the 1LD on the current UFA market, so he's going to be paid a lot. Unless BOS re-signs him ofc.
Krug's age is not an issue yet. He's in the most common UFA age. And the UFA contracts tend to be bigger than RFA deals for obvious reasons.
You are entitled to think however you like, but you'd never run even close to a contending team if you won't give top level players top level contracts due to them being of certain age.
And before you say that Krug is not a top level player, he is the best LHD on this year's UFA market, so he's gonna get paid what is due.
That is how today's NHL work.
You don't need a time machine to know signing Krug til l36 is a dumb move.
Nor do you need one to know he's not a 1LD, and shouldn't be paid like one.
You are enamored by a name. Some non logical attachment to it.
He's not a 7 mil a year player, he does not deserve a 7 year deal at 29 years old.
Both are mistakes.
Furthermore this idea of "best LD" on the UFA market is really relative. He's clearly not the best guy in his own zone. Which is why boston hides him.
Yes he's an offensive defense man....but he has limited 2 way appeal and those numbers are more than likely to flake out. As has done for a lot of players who only had offense going for them.
You can believe whatever you want. You would be the GM signing him to a 7 year deal and then regretting it.
Other teams want to win.
The whole idea of "what is due" Boston can pay him for his past. Other teams shouldn't be making that mistake.
You are due nothing but what you can bring to the ice for your new team. And he isn't brining 7x7 value to a new team.