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Forum: NHL SigningsNov. 12, 2021 at 2:12 p.m.
Thread: Edmonton Oilers signed Matvei Petrov (3 Years / $813,333 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>aadoyle</b></div><div>In general Hyman's contract will age like Milk and basically be Lucic 2.0 so meh were good</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>aadoyle</b></div><div>No it does. Getting that 8th year is a weapon in this modern age. Either pay up or deal with it. That 8th year was worth more than a 6th. Holland could have had an extra year of Hyman over a guy like Bourgault but chose otherwise. Oh well for him
... 365 days more of Hyman looks a lot better than this guy</div></div>
Wait, WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK? First you say that the Hyman contract will age badly, then you say that making the contract EVEN LONGER is worth a high draft pick?

Of all the idiotic comments I've read on this site, this rates near the top.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 6, 2021 at 5:44 p.m.
Thread: Would you do this fans
Koskinen definitely isn't going to be "the solution" going forward but his good performance is exactly why goaltending doesn't need to be a big concern and why the big names aren't always the solution either. Marc-Andre Fleury (very rightly) won the Vezina last year, but he looks cooked this year (and even if you want to blame that on Chicago, the year BEFORE he won the Vezina he was so bad the Knights had to bring in and immediately extend Robin Lehner). Florida extended Sergei Bobrovsky for eight years two years ago and is just this season seeing him come anywhere close to living up to it. On the other hand, Freddie Anderson looked cooked too, but he's putting up unreal numbers in Carolina for comparatively little money. One of the best goalies in the league last year was a 25 year old rookie, and we all saw what happened with Jordan Binnington- making 650k- in 2019.

All of this is to say, goaltending is complete nonsense. There are two guys in the league that you might say are night in and night out great- Hellebuyck and Vasilevskiy. If you aren't getting one of those guys or don't have one on your roster, you don't need to be giving up anything approaching a first round pick for a goalie and you shouldn't be paying them anymore than 5 million dollars.

Gibson is an interesting case because he used to be insanely good and he's decently young so you never know, but it's not worth the risk. You can get solid enough goaltending from somewhere else. The Oilers don't need to be allocating too much cap space to goaltending when McDavid and Draisaitl will be outscoring the other team on the regular no matter who is net.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 12, 2021 at 9:02 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 12, 2021 at 9:00 p.m.