BrooksBurner

Lol I can't imagine locking long term money up in any of those players. Hope not.

Yeah. That's because all the players that would be worth 12+M this offseason are already under contract. You don't think if Crosby, Kane, etc. were on the open market that they would get that? Just McDavid is worth 12M? Not to mention McDavid signed it 2 years ago. 12.5M then is probably now 14-15M if they were doing the contract over today. The risk makes plenty of sense. I'm not even sure where this 12M number came from. 11M may very well be enough.

I'm just going off of what you wrote here. Seems to me your point of bringing up McDavid was to draw a comparison between Panarin and McDavid at X amount of dollars in order to invalidate Panarin's value, while ignoring every other variable that comes into play when discussing how much a player gets paid. Particularly when a contract is signed, current cap, and what leverage the player has in negotiations. You're right. Perspective does matter. I'd rather "overpay" an elite player by 1-2M annually than a 2nd line player.

Pretty sure Tavares took a discount to go to Toronto to make it work,, but when he signed he became the 2nd highest paid player even though he is not the 2nd best player in the league. You know what your point was in bringing up McDavid's contract. By the way, fun fact: Tavares has a lower career PPG than Panarin. I agree on Kreider. He will get the money. We just disagree on the Rangers being the ones to give it to him.

What do we really need offense for next season if we don't get Panarin? Gotta score enough goals to finish 6th from last again instead of 3rd or 4th from last? I'd trade Kreider, but the expected returns would be very different based on whether they signed Panarin or not. To me, Panarin represents a complete shift in the timeline for this franchise being competitive again. A difference between competing by 2020-2021 versus 2022-2023 at the earliest. There are cascading moves that will be made based on whether they land him or not in my opinion.

There's probably about 10-15 players who could and would command 12+ million annually on a new contract if they were a UFA on the market this offseason. But they aren't and Panarin is. Within a year or two players will start signing for more than whatever Panarin gets. That's just how contracts work really...the bar is always raised unless the cap stops increasing. By the way, when McDavid signed that extension he had something like 6 more years before he was going to be UFA eligible. He didn't have UFA leverage like Tavares did or Panarin does. There's a premium to be paid for that when bidding with other teams. If McDavid was actually a UFA today he'd most likely shatter his current contract (15M+ annually?).

Pretty obvious Boston was going to roll the Canes.

It makes sense to me. One is a 50 point player who is much easier to replace, both through FA and from within. The other is a 80-90 point player and those are very hard to find, both in FA and from within. Risk should be weighed accordingly.

She's not entirely wrong in that line of thinking. Good ethical dilemma. BUT, she had the war won without lighting the entire city and innocents on fire. That leans toward Mad King crazy.

The reality is not everyone was going to be happy no matter what the ending was here. I thought some things were either a bit underwhelming or over the top at times, but overall I thought the story might end up at this point with Daenerys going mad. We've seen Daenarys' regression into this for a while. I think Varus' comment towards the beginning was telling about how it was going to go. "They say every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin". Well, Jon is the good one so Daenerys must not be. Add in the fact that all of her closest friends have died, and Jon distancing himself romantically. Ticking time bomb.

But he has never been a 30 goal scorer in 6 seasons and counting. The Rangers shouldn't be about to pay him as such either.

If there's one scenario where I would probably be in favor of rolling the dice on Kreider long term, this would probably be it.

Always sucks putting a pet down. Sorry to hear.

He only needs to lose a step in order for that stretch pass to be pretty irrelevant. Front of net presence is a strength of his but that's not exactly a trait worth 6-7 x 6-7. He'll be 29 at the start of his next contract.

Berube looks like the crazy uncle you have to put up with at Thanksgiving.

He's getting his tan together to meet up with Panarin in Florida during the offseason

"Trying to trade people" 3:50 Get it done Gorton. Unload the shit!

I think the medal throwing incident got under a lot of people's skin. For me it was who cares... Way too soon to give up on Lias or think he has no potential.

Yep this. Olof Lindbom looks promising as well. No need to burn a pick on a goalie.

Assists on the 2nd and 4th goals. That pass on the 4th goal was beautiful. I'd take analysis seen here with a big grain of salt. Fox won't move the needle for everybody. The bar for that is pretty high.

Should have traded Syndergaard to the Yankees for offense.

Trade for the #1. Take Hughes and Kakko 1/2. Easy.

One year doesn't disprove anything. Look at the last 10 years. Generally the top point scorer in the division has been winning the division or at least close. It's not everything because offense is half the battle. Defense matters just as much. The Giants scored enough points to compete for the division. The defense was just that bad. The OL improved as the season went. Flowers was flushed out. Hernandez as a rookie got better as the season went. Him progressing even more this year should help relieve Solder's amount of responsibility on the left side. They traded for an all pro RG. Center wasn't particularly bad last year. RT is still a hole. We'll see what they do there.

So you highly disagree that scoring more points than other teams helps win more games, and thus helps win the division? OK lol. I think most didn't watch the 2nd half since the Giants were basically out of it, so I get it. Maybe some of the guys they brought in will help defensively, but it will probably be more of the same on that end.

Just going based off all of the reports that were out about it. Obviously I am just throwing a percentage out there. Probably depends how much he wanted to turn pro versus go back to college for another year. Rangers might have been choice A, but if he wanted to turn pro that badly he might have been willing to go with choice B (insert team here) instead of wait a year to sign with NYR.