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Yeah and him signing for big $$ elsewhere is a good thing. It will encourage players (a la bunting/kase etc), to take 1-2 year cheap deals to launch themselves into big term and dollars elsewhere.
 
fergy57 said:
Yeah and him signing for big $$ elsewhere is a good thing. It will encourage players (a la bunting/kase etc), to take 1-2 year cheap deals to launch themselves into big term and dollars elsewhere.
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Yup. They will look at Hyman, Mik, Bunting take on cheap deals for the Leafs, juice their stats and get their bag elsewhere. It's a highly desirable place to sign as a winger. Two wide open LW slots with Matthews and Tavares.
 
Yr1: 39gms, EV 15gl/46pt pace, 8.1sh%, 9.6oish%, 52.0xgf% (+0.5rel) --- Plyffs: 5gms, 0gls/0pts pace, 60.7xgf% (+6.1rel)
Yr2: 54gms, EV 11gl/24pt pace, 8.0sh%, 7.5oish%, 54.1xgf% (-1.1rel) ---- Plyffs: 7gms, 0gls/0pts pace, 57.3xgf% (+1.2rel)
Yr3: 51gms, EV 21gl/36pt pace, 11.3sh%, 9.5oish%, 58.2xgf% (+3.1rel) --
Tot: 144gms, EV 15gl/35pt pace, 9.3sh%, 8.9oish%, 54.0xgf% (+0.8rel) --- Plyffs: 12gms, 0gls/0pts pace, 58.9xgf% (+3.5rel)

And even if you agree he deserves more PP time (arguable), this is not a guy anyone will be signing to play on their top PP unit, so projecting even an additional 5gl/10pts of PP production is generous. Projecting him as a 20-25gl/45-50pt type seems pretty fair, but that's of course based on a still small and inconsistent sample, so there's plenty of risk in that projection.

As far as his analytics, his first two years were very mediocre in that department, but he has finally started to be a legit positive impact player this year. But again, a 2/3 season sample of above average impact metrics is not much to go on.

And his playoffs are a very mixed bag - very nice underlying numbers but no production whatsoever.

The chances of him getting near $5m are of course zero.

IF he had a far more consistent track record AND a good playoffs track record AND brought something like a physical edge than sure he might start looking at a Blake Coleman contract comparable but he's not going to get that kind of money based on 3 half seasons of inconsistent play.
 
Palmieri, Saad, Coleman are all comparables as middle 6 winger types, albeit with different skillsets. Coleman is obviously a step above but he got 6 years and is 3 years older than Mik. 4.5-5.5 on a 4-5 year deal sounds realistic depending on how his playoff goes.
 
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This year WAS Mik's discount year IMO, if not for injury shortened seasons, he'd likely be playing somewhere else already.
 
Thank Mik but if we are going to look to retain a found wallet I want that to be Bunting. I don't think we will be able to without a hometown discount but he is who I would want to keep.
 
I wasn't on board with resigning Hyman for the numbers and term he wanted.

Some of you guys were talking insanity like 8 years and $3.5M or whatever craziness was being tossed around. I would've been good with a 3-4 year deal at $4M or so, but that wasn't happening.
 
Preston said:
Palmieri, Saad, Coleman are all comparables as middle 6 winger types, albeit with different skillsets. Coleman is obviously a step above but he got 6 years and is 3 years older than Mik. 4.5-5.5 on a 4-5 year deal sounds realistic depending on how his playoff goes.
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Mikheyev's track record is in no way comparable to those players.
 
Shorter longevity but younger with more apparent upside and better all around game (i.e. if teams think he's a 20 goal, 45 point pk/defensive specialist at 28 years old, that's gonna cost you). I'm thinking like a typical NHL executive, not as Presto.
 
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