BrooksBurner

The line has to be drawn somewhere. IMO drawing it at 11.5 is reasonable. If he passes, then you move on.

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Thought the same thing....and someone just got fired in the graphics department lol

Depends how much of a decrease that is being talked about. It would hurt just like any FA that doesn't perform up to expectations. A PPG player at 12 mill/yr that dips down to a 60 point player is not really any worse than a 50 point 8 mill/yr player that dips down to 35 points. You're probably still better off with the former.

Well most free agents are overvalued at the time of signing, until the next couple of offseasons when even higher bars are set and the cap increases.

So by this logic you'd rather have Strome and Namestnikov instead of Kreider at 7.1 million?

Based on what?

Stanton can't catch a break.

Those free agent lists are why you get Panarin.

Short and has a nice ring to it. I like it.

Pretty sure Hall is the one big name UFA next summer, if he's even available. Tavares and Panarin caliber FAs have generally been pretty rare, but who knows...maybe it is becoming a new norm for guys to turn down extensions for free agency.

How else can we tell if he's a bust or not? Seems like he is now.

His name is Pitlick? Oh I am sure he had a fun childhood.

And 1 NHL team will be disappointed.

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He probably felt bad for Hughes after seeing Newark compared to NYC.

No question he had a handful of clunkers, which is why I didn't say he was the sole reason or that he carried them every game. But so many of their wins consisted of him playing at a ridiculous level, especially the times they needed a win most. The clunkers make the average look less spectacular. But whatever. If people want to act like every single player on every Cup winning roster is irreplaceable they can. I'll just agree to disagree.

It's so easy to talk up a team's pedestrian players like Steen and Barbashev after a Cup win. Steen with 55 hits is all of a sudden a hardnosed player. It's a fallacy. Half of their playoff wins were because Binnington stood on his head for those games, including Game 5 and 7 of the Cup.

The Rangers don't have anyone on the level of Steen, Barbashev, Schenn, etc? You were making a good case up until then.

I hear you, but they aren't people with normal jobs where cost of living can be the difference between affording to live there or not (i.e., rent or mortgage too high). They can buy homes with cash, and they can get it back if/when they sell it.

The tax free stuff is blown a bit out of proportion since it's only tax free on half the contract because only half the games are actually played at home in state. New York versus a no-income state will be a difference of about 4.5% of the total contract value. It's nothing to sneeze at and could be a differentiator if all else equal, but two things: 1) Often times a big market can make up this rather small difference in endorsements. 2) Athletes are humans and sometimes paying a small penalty to live somewhere more desirable to them is absolutely worth it. Quality of life has a price. I'd like to think that in general, living in NYC and playing in MSG is favorable to many athletes.

Yup. I don't think the expectation is to be a playoff team next year no matter what they do right now. It's all about 2020+.

If he's closer than that, Florida will hate a Bobrovsky contract much sooner rather than later. No doubt about that.

The timeline still fits. Knight is likely 3-4 years away. If Bobrovsky signs for 7, the load on the last 3ish years of that contract is eased as Knight gets more time. It might eventually be a bad contract to have on their books, but I'm not sure they care about that right now as much as they care about being competitive after hiring Quenneville.

Quennville. Bob and Panarin I think both are visiting Florida. I'm just speculating, but there's also a couple of good Russian players on the team and they can afford to sign both.