thehabhater
Some call me Tim
Florida is a damn good team. Period. They are playing like champions right now.This is correct but highly misleading
Odd, since they only squeaked into the playoffs, but they are earning every win.
Florida is a damn good team. Period. They are playing like champions right now.This is correct but highly misleading
So you're making a myopic point? I'm confused. I get that their point total was 92. What was their +|- btw?But it's not. We can have a discussion about whether Florida is better than your typical 92 point team, but it was still a 92 point team with ~.900 goaltending.
Yes, they were a good nerdies team that have a incredibly bad 1st half but were still only a 101 point pace team from January 1st onward.
but it's kind of silly to expect a guy to be exiled on Robidas Island next year, who was already cleared to play, this year.
If we buy him out, he’s signing with a team and playing next year. If we robidas him, he sits all year.Same career as if we bought him out this summer, which has to be on the table if a trade doesn't materialize, which is a real possibility.
Except he'd be short 2.7 million dollars in that scenario.
If we buy him out, he’s signing with a team and playing next year.
If we robidas him, he sits all year.
But then maybe no other decent NHL contract after sitting out so long. That’s all I’m saying. Is that extra $2m he’s owed worth risking a few more years of $3m per? I’ll be pleasantly surprised if he goes along but I don’t think it’s realistic.Maybe. He's been injured and below average for 4 straight seasons now. No one is banking on him as anything but a pure backup going forward.
He's looking at 1 yr deals somewhere around the AHL cap reclaim max (1.125ish) on the top end. If he was bad but reliable, I could see a multi year deal at 1.75ish that would make a buyout more palatable for Murray, but I can't see it. He's as likely to end up with a AHL deal as a NHL deal imo.
But gets his money.
The NHL is systemicly rotten and needs a complete purge. I really think if you got 12 billionaires together and said pro sports is where the money is there would be interest. The entry fee? A paltry $150m to get the league structure set up.It's wild that we're like a decade into seeing various types of LTIR fuckery and we're honestly discussing whether the base premise of it all even exists.
Also wild that we're treating team doctors as if they're not in on it when we know they are and have worked on behalf of their teams numerous, numerous times in the past. As long as it doesn't put Murray in danger (fuck...and even if it did, team doctors have a bad history of putting injured players on the ice), the doctor will do what they're told by the team & Murray.
For clarity, I'm not suggesting that we're forcing Murray onto LTIR unilaterally. He would be in on the move, and would be doing it to preserve his whole salary and avoid a buy out. But if Murray tells Doc "I don't feel quite right" (about losing 2.7 million dollars...), he books his ticket to Robidas Island. Wouldn't even make a top 5 list of most ridiculous LTIR burys over the last 10 years.
But then maybe no other decent NHL contract after sitting out so long. That’s all I’m saying. Is that extra $2m he’s owed worth risking a few more years of $3m per? I’ll be pleasantly surprised if he goes along but I don’t think it’s realistic.
And I do think there’d be takers at short term $2.5m/$3m per right now.
But it's not.
but it is….a 92pt team connotes a certain level of team quality. Florida had a much higher team quality than that (reigning Prez winners), dragged down by .901 goaltending.
maybe your “technically correct” statement
saying we lost to a 92pt team, is obviously an attempt to knock them for losing fo some wholely mediocre squad.
we didn’t.
Goaltending is
A) Part of what determines team quality
or
B) Part of what determines team quality
Aka: the best kind of correct
I mean, if you want to say that we lost to a 92 point team with a goalie on a heater...sure, I wouldn't argue against that (despite not being on a heater going into the series....but I'm generous, so whatev)
But we lost to a team that capped out as a ~100 point type regular season team in the 2nd half, that has literally zero history of playoff success before this season. The opposite actually.
We lost in 5 games to the 8th place xG% team and got goalied by a guy with a .901 sv% this season, who has had one average or better season out of the last 4 (and it wasn't this one)
I don't think your narrative is painting says what you want it to say about what just happened. 5 games and out against a good nerdies team with a bad goalie. Making a bad goalie look like a fucking stud for 5 games isn't an actual achievement.