JackBurton
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And Trev gave Coleman that horrendous deal (Grit, leadership) and took away cap to sign MT. The 3 years for 'only" 7 million is a bad idea with your young players. Especially from U.s and you're in Calgary.
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The foolishness handed out to Coleman , Goodrow types is hilarious
JackBurton
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My issue is the ass-kissing and "Only 8.3! discount" comments for guys that haven't hit even 60 points or played a playoff game, but Marner should be getting the same.
JackBurton
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Calgary and Rangers would dump those deals in an instant. Never, ever sign UFA "Gritty 3rd liners that won cups elsewhere". Disaster.
JackBurton
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Not bad, but would you want that contract? Nice season this year, yes not sure that can justify it.
Preston
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He has probably provided at least 4.9m of value per year so far. But yeah, it may age poorly. He's really good though. Tre did much worse things than that.
Wayward DP
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that contract is like giving the majority of goalies term
Wayward DP
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Ottawa and Buffalo have young "studs".
Leafs just have untalented, middle-aged bums on oversized contracts. And are in constant cap hell. And can never afford to keep all of the definitely not star players we keep resigning. Think I have this right now.
Wayward DP
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I mean we know his cologne now, just get yourself acclimated and sniff him out?
Wayward DP
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better than Goodrow at least
Preston
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3 years in and the ice is still tilted when he's on the ice. He has provided a shit ton of value. I don't think the last 1 or 2 (maybe 3?) years will be pretty but so far I can think of like 5 things that Tre fucked up worse than signing a gritty analytics darling (yes, admittedly paying the Calgary tax to do so). Fair to be concerned that he'd fall off a cliff by now but it just hasn't happened. He has arguably had his best year with the Flames this year.
hockeylover
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Yep pretty much. I'm just tired of the "Leafs locking up their best players when they can't get over the hump in the playoffs!!" rhetoric if you're going to simultaneously blow teams that are near the bottom. I guess it's a consequence of expectations but it's not logical.
Just wait! Ottawa and Buffalo will be good any moment now!! They're up and coming. Anyyyyyy day now.
Wayward DP
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yeah the cognitive dissonance is pretty strong on this. Leaf hatred is pretty blinding, apparently.
JackBurton
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It is the double-standard that's tiresome. How much can a young player with pretty "Meh" regular season stats and 0 playoff games get anyways? Nylander had 2 61 point seasons and people wanted to drag Dubas through the streets for the overpay.
MindzEye
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I've seen too many of these "oh, that's going to be ugly in the last 1-2 yrs" type deals end up on LTIR now to be as worried as I used to be about them.
I'm of the mind that these guys are now signing these long term deals into mid-late 30's knowing that they're retirement deals and will likely end up on some version of Robidas island before the end of it. Most hockey players in their mid 30's have built up a collection of significant enough injuries that it's fairly easy to slide them into LTIR if they're willing to cash the paycheque from the beach.
Preston
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The real bad ones are the ones that look dumb in year 1, yeah. I've got all the time in the world for a gritty analytics darling.
MindzEye
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Yup, I'm kind of cool with bertuzzi having a rough counting stat year if it allows us to lock him up like that.
zeke
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Your "cleanliness".