BrilliantCan someone do a photoshop of Chevy's grinning face on Steve Austin/Lee Majors body? I'm redubbing him the Six Million Dollar Man due to the Scheif and Ehlers contracts
Now, within the next year and a half, lock up Laine, Wheeler, Morrisey, Poolman and either lock up Trouba, or trade him.
Potential dynasty?
What a fantastic deal. Jesus. Looks like Chevy just gave the market a sensible baseline for similar contracts (hopefully Nylander!)
Ehlers signing the extension before his ELC is up is highly unusual.
The only non-first-overall picks who have done that recently are Eichel and Landeskog (who was captain at the time). (edit: and Klefbom, that's a weird one)
Now, within the next year and a half, lock up Laine, Wheeler, Morrisey, Poolman and either lock up Trouba, or trade him.
Potential dynasty?
Now, within the next year and a half, lock up Laine, Wheeler, Morrisey, Poolman and either lock up Trouba, or trade him.
Potential dynasty?
over on the leaf boards they have their own thread on this signing and comparing it to a nylander signing. consensus is nylander will get more because he has a higher ceiling than ehlers.
Nylander is about as close a comparable to Ehlers as there is, Lou is probably finishing the touches on an exact replica of the Ehlers contract for Willy to sign by end of day today.
i think his expansion draft wheeling and dealing really brought some cred with the players and perhaps within the league. Kept the team together without uprooting anyone. imagine if Perrault was sent to vegas after signing extension with wpg.
I think expansion draft really had an impact on dressing room dynamics on team like Ottawa.
I think that if there was ever a shot at one, in todays capped era, Chevy is giving us the best opportunity to become one with the Scheif, Little, Ehlers, Buff and Perreault contracts he inked. Could you imaging the types of cherries Chevy could put on the top of this group should the cap rise lets say 5 to 6 million over the next 5 years.
Chevy gets an A+ this offseason/preseason, what a masterful job of managing our cap.
Brilliant
Those 2 contracts are going to be the envy of every GM in the league. As some others have mentioned maybe these guys just think 6 million is OK money and want to play with this team. Chevy and his bionic pen,
Let me just add this. We lock up Laine and Trouba to long term deals, and we make some noise in the playoffs this season, we won't have any problems signing high profile free agents to short term contracts.