The solution is simple.....stop handing out shit contracts
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GrandWazoo
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If the solution was so simple, it would have been done already. It’s a competitive league where short term interests often outweighs long term interest. If you really want a player, you have no choice but to cave in, as some other team will give them that contract. Sure, you might dodge a bullet in the future, but now you just have a key player that you need to replace somehow.
Moral of the story, teams as a whole will always give shit contracts, even when they know it’s shit.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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It shows that nice things like universal health care and infrastructure cost money. It also shows how tax laws in the US are written to benefit the already rich. But in any case the NHL can't change the tax codes, they can only take steps to mitigate the inequality between the US and Canadian teams. They would also need a methodology for US teams who benefit unfairly because they are located in markets with no state taxes.
GW , I am referring to the moronic moves from day 1 or the team whose window is over and keep overpaying
If its a shit contract , why hand it out .
Whose job are these stupid deals going to save ?
Its not rocket science for these supposed smart regimes
Signing a stud vet while your contending window is open or a young Stuzle to full term are good moves
Giving EK or Miller an 8 year deal on teams going nowhere is stupid , and end badly.
legoalie
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You also have to look at the median of how long GM's last...which by everything thing i have read is 5.5 years so let's say 6.. less in Canada.. so a GM signing a player to 8 years may not be around to the end of that contract.. so why would the GM care if it is 2 or 3 years too long..
He wont be around in 3-4 years nowadays and wont be his problem to fix
The contract could be shorter but the results are still the same
A dumb contract never gets you anywhere even if its passed down to the new regime
Alan C
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The thing is bad contracts can work out short term. Short term is all a current gm cares about. The exception is for teams attempting a rebuild.
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This is why owners or team Presidents need to have oversight. They'll still be around after the GM gets canned so they have a vested interest in making sure that their current GM doesn't sabotage the franchise on his way out of town.
Agreed to a point
If your competitive like Winnipeg is/was inking a front liner like Wheeler to 5 years your concern is probably year 4 and 5
But he is a key piece to your window to win , I understand those moves
Inking Skinner , Okposo Gally or Price to stupid money when your in full gut rebuild is bad management
These moves saved nobody`s job , teams clean house at some point
Teams spinning their wheels should never make these mistakes
Only exception is inking your out of entry ELC core kids to term and have 6-8 years to figure it out
They have upside , trade clauses dont kick in for years and are easily moveable for great returns
Teams are too scared to accept reality and act accordingly
not all have a "fuck the fans" mentality like you as they actually have skin in the game and years of being shit does not sell tickets. I totally get the view that doing what we did was not optimal but at least we never had 10000 at a game.
The last two years (and you want 3-5 more) have been disastrous. By the time you think we might be ready to compete for a playoff berth, our current best players might be on the way out and then boom, we do it all over again.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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We could go 0-82 and we would still have near sell-outs ever single game. We could tell the fans we are tanking and they'd still buy tickets like their lives depended on it. If any team in the league could afford to blow it up, gut the roster like a dead fish and start from absolute scratch without it negatively affecting their bottom line, it's this one. There was no excuse for signing Price and Gallagher to those boat anchor contracts.
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This makes more sense. He's 21 and they have him locked in for his prime years.
Price's contract never cost us any player on the team.
Caufield should get a little more per year. Maybe $8.5 million, maybe a bit more.
GrandWazoo
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We haven't been selling out the past 2 seasons.
Actually its the fans telling teams fuck you for being stupid and forcing me to watch GARBAGE
Fans are embracing the rebuild , watching youth develop , and giving hope one day
Habs were always going to have 75% capacity even putting circus clowns on skates , there is no other game in town
The last 2 years were a fuck up and the last 6 were a playoff miss without the covid gift
Is that what you want Count as a paying customer , garbage every night because your regime is stupid ?
Nonsense , if the Habs drafted and developed better, traded vets better and stopped kicking the fucken can down the road , team wouldnt be in this GUT REBUILD
If you run it better the other variables get taken care off
Does a washed Gally really make a difference to running the team only to have him rot on IR
Highly doubt he touches 8 mil with Hugo
Cozens might be his number , for a goal scorer and nothing else