Quoting: drambui
for necas, you might have not liked his play recently, but you will have to look at his career for a contract. there is no way he'll sign 2x 1 mill. try to find someone with his stats that signed a contract like that (good luck).
and if you are looking at a 1 year discount deal, i would go to colorado over carolina. and forsberg will pe preferes over players like fiala, senko and kane cause the team getting him wont have to pay asset for him. and lets be real, with the argument you listed ( career year, injury history) he will want to cash in a not take a 2 year deals. he might not go to a contender but he will go somwhere else. once again, i dont own the absolute truth, im just looking at the past to predict the future and i cant remember someone taking a 2 year deal to contend in the last 15 years while a UFA.
You want me to find players that scored 15 points in the last 8 months of the year and will make a million? That's not hard. He's not been good, has shown massive regression and he's going to have to take a deal like this. He's not arbitration eligible, anyone that will offer him what he wants wont be contending for the cup like Carolina, and he's still controlled by the Canes.
Sure, but Colorado has this guy to extend coming up called Nathan MacKinnon. If you want to act like this is a 1 year contract, Burakovsky is up, they need to find a goaltender because Kuemper is up, Kadri, Nishuskin is up... There's no cap there. But this isn't a 1-year discount deal, look at the contract again. It's 2. The fact you think he'll prioritize term over cash is fine, but it's not known. You could knock two or three million off of that contract if he's getting max term. He knows he could cash in twice, and if he's serious about winning the cup, his best chance is to do it as a useful top six contributor.
If you want an example of a guy doing this to find a home on a contender, Taylor Hall. That was slightly different because he signed with Buffalo and there was an understanding that he would be moved at the deadline to a cup contender and that was a 1-year deal, but again... Hall's injury history is very comparable to that of Forsberg's. When Hall is healthy, he's fantastic. Forsberg is the same. That's why I structured it this way. Obviously, it could be a one year deal, but this is his best bet.