Sojourn
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And that brings us back to the whole if you need some very specific type of partner that's a solid top 4 and almost never makes mistakes to play decently are you really worth a salary that's top 20 of all NHL defensemen? And yes, I get in a few years he wont be the highest paid and all that but the question is, is he worth what they gave him now. IMO you don't pay people because in a few years they will be theoretically be reasonably paid even if they are overpaid now
That might be your opinion, but it's something that GM's have been doing around the NHL for a while now. It's one of the reasons we've been seeing more long term contracts. GM's can't front load contracts anymore, not like they used to. So, instead, they extend the term and that allows them to lower the cap hit. The
You're also exaggerating your description of the D partner Fowler needs something awful, and I'm not even sure why. Despres was hardly a "almost never makes mistakes" player, and Fowler did fine with him. You can't make that kind of statement because the list of top 4 defensemen that Fowler has played with for any extended period of time is ridiculously short. So, you're exaggerating just to exaggerate, because you can't put together a list of attributes that you know works or doesn't work, because you really only have Despres or Vatanen if we're looking at recent players.
All we know is that Vatanen and Fowler didn't work well together.