Maybe....I will say that while indidivually they dont look big, think that 21mil looks like this:

Bertuzzi 5.5
DOmi 3
Kampf 2.4
Reaves 1.3
Klingberg 4.1
Samsonov 3.5

WHile you cant argue that Samsonov had to be retained after 2023, going through the RFA arbitration process was not a good move simply based on the 1 year deal, and you could argue that Kampf isn;t overpaid by much, etc.... but only domi at 3mil for a likely 40pts on the 3rd line is looking like money well spent. And thats just 3 out of the 20 million spent, and yet we still have huge question marks in goal, defense, physicality and offensive depth (an annual issue).

Ultimately its kind of what weve seen before, but with the exception of domi, none of these guys look like keepers at those amounts. And even the younger guys like liljegren, robertson, timmins have not shown that theyre worth radical pay increases or are parts of the future.

Nailed it but even though Bertuzzi doesn’t have a ton of points right now, he is proving to be valuable to this team and points are coming as of late. Crazy to me that we dont move one of the big four so we are in this predicament every year. Be nice to have solid veteran depth and defence, not whoever is willing to take a hometown discount or on a ELC.

I guess you could have stopped the nonsense thinking Marner was going to waive his NMC to the Ducks.

Before July 1st there was no nmc…

3 of the biggest myths currently on CFACGM...

1. Rasmus Andersson is available
2. Boone Jenner is available
3. Mitch Marner will waive his NMC

Edit: I forgot. We're dealing with Butterfly Effect rules here. My bad on #3.

Quick signed where he wanted to. Childhood team no different from Gio or spezza.

The other issue was quality of play in 22/23. Samsonov was good/very good. Both Quick and Jones were not. Nice to see both Quick and Jones rebound this year.