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5.5-8 for Bozak is easilythe dumbest thing i have read ever.....ever, but the illusion of him being a 1st line C will garner him 4.5 or so over 4-5 years...and whoever pays that will insta regret it.
 
Yeah, I really don't get the media love for Bozak. He's a smallish center that's weak defensively (except for his faceoff skills). On the offensive side of things, has never scored 50 points at the NHL level, has only cracked the 40 point plateau once in four seasons and who managed to score at just barely above 50 point pace pace last year while playing first line minutes flanked by two PPG wingers. This year, playing first line minutes and getting loads of PP time with two quality wingers again in Kessel and van Riemsdyk, he's scoring at a 46 point pace while generally making no contribution towards making that line better offensively or defensively.

If the hacks are right and there's someone out there that's willing to pay him four or even five million, please, for the love of God, let them do it but don't let it be us.
 
LeafGm said:
Yeah, I really don't get the media love for Bozak. He's a smallish center that's weak defensively (except for his faceoff skills). On the offensive side of things, has never scored 50 points at the NHL level, has only cracked the 40 point plateau once in four seasons and who managed to score at just barely above 50 point pace pace last year while playing first line minutes flanked by two PPG wingers. This year, playing first line minutes and getting loads of PP time with two quality wingers again in Kessel and van Riemsdyk, he's scoring at a 46 point pace while generally making no contribution towards making that line better offensively or defensively.

If the hacks are right and there's someone out there that's willing to pay him four or even five million, please, for the love of God, let them do it but don't let it be us.
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And IF thats how the league values him as a FA, then he would/should garner a helluva return as a rental....cash the **** in
 
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Some around league expect Perry to get more than $9-million AAV on open market. Was always going to be harder for Ducks to re-sign.
 
BTW looking back it's crazy anaheim would draft Getzlaf and Perry late in the first of the same draft year ...

I mean, think about this - Nathan Horton, Andrei Kostitsyn and Nikolai Zherdev were ALL drafted before Ryan Getzlaf.

And those aren't even the worst players to be drafted before Getzlaf at 19 ... Coburn (8th overall by Atlanta), Jessiman (12th overall by NYR ... I know, played a total of 2NHL games for a 12th overall pick ... bad bad scouting), Nilsson (15th overall, NYI) and Steve Bernier (SJ, 16th) and Fehr (Washington, 18th) all went before Getzlaf. At least 15 of those guys shouldn't have gone before Getzlaf in that year's draft.

And who went before Perry at 28th? Jeff Tambellini, Brian Boyle, Anthony Stewart, Marc-Antoine Pouliot ....

Toronto didn't have a 1st round pick in 03, instead selected John Doherty with their 2nd round pick, and Doherty never made it to the NHL even for 1 game. The most notable player after Toronto's pick is David Backes, selected 4 spots after Doherty.
 
Bozak will get something like 4 / 16. Maybe push 4.5 mill a year annually.

While some teams go insane on free agent day, I can't imagine anyone give him 5+, that's just stupid.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to slot Kadri into a first line role, he's doing well in sheltered minutes - but he'll need another season before I would play him strength on strength.
 
BG said:
I wouldn't be so quick to slot Kadri into a first line role, he's doing well in sheltered minutes - but he'll need another season before I would play him strength on strength.
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Well, I totally disagree... but even if I didn't, what choice do we have exactly? What do you propose we do instead? :shrug
 
kadri started the year with ultra-protected minutes but that's been changing the last while.

the last 7gms he's played a hair under 17mpg.....and has 11pts in those 7gms.
 
hockeylover said:
Well, I totally disagree... but even if I didn't, what choice do we have exactly? What do you propose we do instead? :shrug
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I would continue to look for a true 1st line centre, or find a veteran player who could slot in there - like an Andy McDonald or Stephen Weiss.

Kadri doesn't have the face-off skill or the size to go up against another teams top-line, maybe in a year or two but not yet.
 
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