Edited Dec. 5, 2021 at 11:56 a.m.
Quoting: DirtyDangle
hes declining and getting old it's a bad combo given his contract. even if he has better playoffs hes still getting worse as a player. you're selling a lemon
Re-read that sentence then enter Rehab
You sound drunk
Everyone gets old and declines period
Price's state of decline isnt concerning at all but more like Brodeur's
Everyone **** talked Marty for years but he put up his best numbers i think as 34-35 and went to a SCF at i think 39?
Tim Thomas was a nobody who took off at 31 becoming a starter who won 2 Vezina's , Conn Smythe and a SC by by age 37 i believe
Goalies Mature different then Skaters.
Your statement is "just because he's better in the playoffs where it matters doesnt mean he's got value "
There's not a coach in the league that goes "well i dont know "
They'd just laugh and say "that's why there's a Back Up Goalie Position"
What matters is come playoffs
As far as how much he made thats on Molson for interfering in Subban trade talks because they were going bad and MB was ready to move Subban.
Molson interfered and gave him his full ask
What can you do ?
Why would Price take less given he at this time carried the team for most of a decade.
Is he over paid ? Yup
Does that mean even in his decline he has not Value? Nope
Most of his Contract is Signing Bonus actually like 80% and paid 45.75m/70m of his signing bonus's with 7/14m base salary in the first 4 years.
His Contract becomes less scary from this point out and while the cap hit is high who doesn MTL have to pay really ?
Our 2 biggest young guns we were worried about collecting are both underachieving .
We're rebuilding now and Price/Primeau tandem will be the difference between another year like this or actually competing .
Price may not make sense to some
But to those who watch him play not just read sports stats out of Context
We see the Value in Price even as he gets older
Fans even when they demand everyone be held accountable always give 2 players a pass
Gallagher and Price because when they've been out/injured we've had historically crappy starts.(this is the worst one yet but we've had some bad ones under Therrien/Julien they called historic as well)
They may be paid a lot but that's because they're Quality Players (this isnt a Neal /Skinner situation where a team feals cheated right after signing a deal. We got what we expected out of it)