Bottom 4 cap teams are ones left .. Ottawa Buffalo Detroit and NJ .. was thinking cost us a 5th but market rapidly moving away towards costing a #2 .. what a disaster.. NEVER sign non core assets to long term contracts.. ever
Bottom 4 cap teams are ones left .. Ottawa Buffalo Detroit and NJ .. was thinking cost us a 5th but market rapidly moving away towards costing a #2 .. what a disaster.. NEVER sign non core assets to long term contracts.. ever
I don't think we could win a Cup without having any non-core guys signed to long-term contracts. For what Johnson has given us over this contract, if all we lose is a 2nd, I'm not going to be outraged.
I don't think we could win a Cup without having any non-core guys signed to long-term contracts. For what Johnson has given us over this contract, if all we lose is a 2nd, I'm not going to be outraged.
COULD not disagree with your post more.. we won because of additions of Shattwrkirk Bogo Maroon Schenn Colemen and Goodrow .. NONE of which is on a long term conyrcat and most 1 year ... TJ and Gourde contrcats could cost up Cups going forward.. it that bad .. warned people of this ths last 2 years
COULD not disagree with your post more.. we won because of additions of Shattwrkirk Bogo Maroon Schenn Colemen and Goodrow .. NONE of which is on a long term conyrcat and most 1 year ... TJ and Gourde contrcats could cost up Cups going forward.. it that bad .. warned people of this ths last 2 years
I agree that Coleman and Goodrow were integral to that Cup and everyone you mentioned was a contributor. And do we win without Johnson? Almost definitely. But do we win without Palat? Without Gourde (7g on the third line is pretty good, is it not)? Without Killorn? You can't always just plug in whoever at the deadline. I'd be in favor of signing guys like that to shorter contracts but the problem is they just won't sign it. The only reason I think this is so bad is because these guys have NTCs. That's the part that completely confuses me. NTCs are for your stars, not for your random depth players like Johnson. In theory it makes them sign at a discount but Johnson at $5m was literally never a discount. Take away the NTCs and we're just fine. The NTCs could absolutely cost us future Cups, but I don't fault Yzerman for signing Johnson and BriseBois for signing Gourde in the first place.
I agree that Coleman and Goodrow were integral to that Cup and everyone you mentioned was a contributor. And do we win without Johnson? Almost definitely. But do we win without Palat? Without Gourde (7g on the third line is pretty good, is it not)? Without Killorn? You can't always just plug in whoever at the deadline. I'd be in favor of signing guys like that to shorter contracts but the problem is they just won't sign it. The only reason I think this is so bad is because these guys have NTCs. That's the part that completely confuses me. NTCs are for your stars, not for your random depth players like Johnson. In theory it makes them sign at a discount but Johnson at $5m was literally never a discount. Take away the NTCs and we're just fine. The NTCs could absolutely cost us future Cups, but I don't fault Yzerman for signing Johnson and BriseBois for signing Gourde in the first place.
TJ is gonna cost a 1st for no retained salary to move. At least. Marc Staal cost a 2nd for 1 year. Clearly everyone wants to give Tampa a hard time, so they're gonna be a-holes.
Killorn doesn't fetch a 2nd. I'd say 3rd at best. probably less. Not that he isn't good enough, the GMs are just being a-holes this offseason