The Mother-fucking goddamn Off-season Thread

[CH1]

cup-winning dummies tho

Pasta never won the Cup
Nathan signed his cup friendly contract after winning it

 

[Wayward DP]

and remember, guys like MacKinnon and Pastrnak made literally half as much as Matthews did on their current deals. And they still chose to not gouge their teams this round again.

Kuch too

 

[CH1]

regular season zeke: nobody compares to Matthews except McDavid who is horrible defensively
contract season zeke: here is a list of other guys that we should compare Matthews to...and I'm happy to report that Nate has better numbers.

 

[zeke]

Literally offering him the biggest contract in the league.

 

[Wayward DP]

regular season zeke: nobody compares to Matthews except McDavid who is horrible defensively
contract season zeke: here is a list of other guys that we should compare Matthews to...and I'm happy to report that Nate has better numbers.

leave poor zeke alone

 

[Killer93]

Buyout Matthews!!!

 

[zeke]

and MacKinnon is, of course, comparable to Matthews.

Dom's model actually had MacKinnon (+26) ahead of Matthews (+25) heading into these playoffs. McDavid went in at +29.

And that's completely ignoring all those showy things that people consider part of contract value like points totals and playoffs performances and cups and whatnot.

 

[CH1]

there's a reason you often use 2 year totals in your analysis #biggerpicture

 

[zeke]

Dom's ratings use 3yrs of data iirc.

 

[CH1]

ok

8 x 14.344444 is the lowest I will go

 

[zeke]

all this cuz ch1 got all riled up by the news that Auston was staying a leaf forever.

 

[CH1]

all this cuz ch1 got all riled up by the news that Auston was staying a leaf forever.

that was never in doubt (though I would change forever to a while)

what I didn’t foresee was you not understanding that the market is a forward looking mechanism

 

[zeke]

that was never in doubt (though I would change forever to a while)

what I didn’t foresee was you not understanding that the market is a forward looking mechanism

mackinnon signed 9 months ago. pastrnak signed a 2 months ago.

 

[CH1]

too bad you couldn't sign Matthews back then

anyway, we'll soon be able to measure your level of miscalculation

 

[zeke]

yes everything* has changed in the last 9 months.

(* = actually nothing)

 

[CH1]

guaranteed your opinion will change quite soon

 

[zeke]

Even Dom admits in his piece that MacKinnon is the right precedent.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Are people still questioning Zeke?

 

[Preston]

zeke did a very good job in this debate. Impressive work. He convinced me that Matthews should definitely leave millions of dollars on the table and that's all that matters.

 

[zeke]

Just that Matthews behave the same way as other hockey players behave, and not as some unique unicorn.