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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

MindzEye said:
I want to laugh but thats basically a cheaper version of the JT deal for a guy who has been better the last 3 years than JT was the 3 years prior to us signing him.
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You can laugh. Miller is turning 30 midway through the season, and his 7 year extension won't even kick in until the next season (so 8 more years).

Meanwhile, Tavares is turning 32 before the season starts and only has 3 years left.

If you had to take one of those contracts this year, you're taking Tavares'.
 
Spector of course has written this same column every single year, but this year more voices are joining him. Amazing what one good playoffs series can do for homers. oilers barely squeaked past the worst team in the playoffs in round 1 and got demolished in round 3.

Oilers

21-22: 11th
20-21: 11th
19-20: 12th

This offseason the biggest change is losing the guy they used as their top matchup dman.
 
zeke said:
Spector of course has written this same column every single year, but this year more voices are joining him. Amazing what one good playoffs series can do for homers. oilers barely squeaked past the worst team in the playoffs in round 1 and got demolished in round 3.

Oilers

21-22: 11th
20-21: 11th
19-20: 12th

This offseason the biggest change is losing the guy they used as their top matchup dman.
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they also have a new starting goalie. who has never really successfully managed a starter's workload. don't forget that.
 
Spector can't stop mentioning the Leafs in every article he writes. People out West need to learn to stop bringing up the Leafs so much. That's why they are in the news so much.
I mentioned it before, but Spector's meltdown on Stellick was epic in the Spring.
 
Leaf hatred is an easy sell out west. Albertans in general resent Toronto despite 95% of them never having been to Toronto.

The ones who have been, uniformly love Toronto
 
So they're at about $32.5m locked in longterm for their Core 4 - Tkachuk, Stutzle, Norris, Chabot. That's 3 young forwards (22, 22, 20) who were in the 60-70pt pace range last year and a 25yr old dman in the 50pt range, who led their team to 26th place. I assume they're going to try and get Debrincat signed to a similar hit though he'll probably want more.

Still though that's pretty good for the Sens. Solid young core locked in longterm now.

They're really going to want some of these guys to take another big step forward though.
 
zeke said:
So they're at about $32.5m locked in longterm for their Core 4 - Tkachuk, Stutzle, Norris, Chabot. That's 3 young forwards (22, 22, 20) who were in the 60-70pt pace range last year and a 25yr old dman in the 50pt range, who led their team to 26th place. I assume they're going to try and get Debrincat signed to a similar hit though he'll probably want more.

Still though that's pretty good for the Sens. Solid young core locked in longterm now.

They're really going to want some of these guys to take another big step forward though.
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correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not a contract that requires further development for it to be 'team-friendly'?

i.e. Stutzle has never been worth that much before but if he continues to improve he may be?
 
Media just sees things differnetly when it's not the Leafs.



Brady+Stroodle would make it 16.5 for 2 guys who had not seen a playoff game yet and didn't have great numbers.
 
zeke said:
So they're at about $32.5m locked in longterm for their Core 4 - Tkachuk, Stutzle, Norris, Chabot. That's 3 young forwards (22, 22, 20) who were in the 60-70pt pace range last year and a 25yr old dman in the 50pt range, who led their team to 26th place. I assume they're going to try and get Debrincat signed to a similar hit though he'll probably want more.

Still though that's pretty good for the Sens. Solid young core locked in longterm now.

They're really going to want some of these guys to take another big step forward though.
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Honestly, biggest concern for Ottawa wasn't players, it was having an owner who would pay to keep them. Melnyk's daughters have common sense he did not. That was a waste of a perfectly good liver.
 
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