Edited Jul. 26, 2021 at 12:33 p.m.
Quoting: Jco5ta5
THEN they won 3 Stanley Cups in 6 years. THEN they went to 5 WCF in 7 years. Calm down. Seth Freakin Jones in a great player and a HUGE upgrade to our D corp. Yes the contract sucks but Hawks have tons of money and as you know, anybody can be traded for any reason. It's fine.
They won the cups 6 years ago. That was great. But let's not act like Stan Bowman has made good moves since then. As for Seth Jones, he is most certainly not a great player. He is barely an average player. For the last 2 years, he has been below average. He was a bit above average offensively in the 18-19 and 19-20 seasons. But before that, all his offense came on the powerplay. Even then, he was just a bit above average. His defense this year was atrocious with a -3.4 below replacement. Before this year, he has been hovering around replacement. His WAR this year was -1, and he has been teetering just above 0 for the last 2 years.
In conclusion, Seth Jones is an average, to below-average, second pair defenseman. No where near $9.5 mil/8 years. If the Hawks were willing to shell out that much on a defenseman, Hamilton is available. Martinez is available. Even Cale Makar and Rasmus Dahlin are technically available and worth an oversheet. If they wanted to trade that much, they could get the rights to Quinn Hughes, or Nate Schmidt (same value, much cheaper), Brendan Dillon, etc.
What I am getting at is that if they were ready to spend that much on a player, there are dozens of better options that wouldn't make the future even worse.