Confirmed with Link: Mattias Ekholm extended (4yx6.25m)

[Flgatorguy87]

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[herzausstein]

I like the term. Wish It was a little lower aav but not bad

 

[jumb0]

Good. Now everyone can focus their unwarranted panicking on Forsberg

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I would have cheerfully taken him back at 5 x $7.5M if that's what it took. He's that important to our team.

It does not surprise me in the least however that he gave us another bargain contract instead. Not quite as much a bargain as last time, but still.

Very nice to have that out of the way before the season starts so we don't have to hear half the other fanbases in the league coming here asking about him while we all knew very well that he'd be extending.

 

[weeze]

I don't mind the length and aav of contract. He plays hard/scores some and rarely misses any games. Also not a 7-8 year contract! He may decide to retire at 35?

 

[nine_inch_fang]

Wow.!.!.! Another very team friendly deal.

 

[LCPreds]

I don’t really find this to be a bargain. It’s not bad though and at only 4 years it’s probably perfect term given our likely trajectory over that time.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I don't mind the length and aav of contract. He plays hard/scores some and rarely misses any games. Also not a 7-8 year contract! He may decide to retire at 35?

I liked the Rinne model. Just give him extra years one at a time as long as he's still playing well and wants to keep playing.

 

[101st_fan]

Capfriendly still shows it as "unconfirmed".

 

[jumb0]

Capfriendly still shows it as "unconfirmed".

Probably waiting for a team announcement, which will take a while

 

[Armourboy]

I liked the Rinne model. Just give him extra years one at a time as long as he's still playing well and wants to keep playing.

Well and with Poile's past history with Fisher and Rinne it might explain why he was willing to take that term.

I'm fine with the AAV, especially with that term.

 

[101st_fan]

Probably waiting for a team announcement, which will take a while

I'm guessing its either that or for the transaction to process at the league when it will hit Capfriendly's automated tweet feed.

 

[triggrman]

Wow, that's really good for us.

 

[Viqsi]

 

[OldFan]

Wow, that's really good for us.

Whew! Really, really good!

 

[nine_inch_fang]

I don’t really find this to be a bargain. It’s not bad though and at only 4 years it’s probably perfect term given our likely trajectory over that time.

It may not be a bargain but it fits perfectly for what the team needed.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I didn't think $6.25M was much of a bargain for Ellis. But other fans around the league seemed to think it was fine and dandy. Yet I think Ekholm is pretty significantly better than Ellis... like, it's not close... soooooo....

 

[NoNecksCurse]

This is an amazing deal. i love the term. i love the $$$ .. everything makes sense for where our roster is currently at.

 

[NoNecksCurse]

*STARES IN FORSBERG*

 

[PredsV82]

Wow.!.!.! Another very team friendly deal.

This is an amazingly good deal for us. No lagging years paying him 7 million when hes washed up.

Proves that he really just wanted to stay here.

 

[PredsV82]

*STARES IN FORSBERG*

Fil doesnt care. Hes clearly not a "I wanna be here forever" guy, and that's fine.

I dont think he extends during the season. I'm not gonna worry about it if he doesnt.

 

[NoNecksCurse]

Fil doesnt care. Hes clearly not a "I wanna be here forever" guy, and that's fine.

I dont think he extends during the season. I'm not gonna worry about it if he doesnt.

me either. not gonna worry the least bit.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Fil doesnt care. Hes clearly not a "I wanna be here forever" guy, and that's fine.

I dont think he extends during the season. I'm not gonna worry about it if he doesnt.

And he's going to have to live with the risk that he takes onto himself by doing so, if so. With some of his injury history, and with our team perhaps not likely to have any scoring fireworks, I question his ability to find a better contract elsewhere than he might be able to get with us if he extended today.

Of course, if he got traded to a contender at the Trade Deadline, he might improve his chances of winning something this year. Although it's always such a crapshoot. I'm not sure taking somewhat better but still by no means guaranteed odds of winning this year weighs significantly against the odds of a better long-term contract. But who knows. That's up to him.

Also I like what I'm seeing with Tomasino and Afanaseyev showing well, and I like the Svechkov pick. We seem to have some forwards coming now. Trading Forsberg for some more good futures doesn't terrify me. Contrasted to defense... where I still don't feel like we have anybody Ekholm-like clearly identified yet in the pipeline. Nobody with his size and two-way ability at least. Losing Ekholm would certainly have terrified me more.

 

[weeze]

Fil doesnt care. Hes clearly not a "I wanna be here forever" guy, and that's fine.

I dont think he extends during the season. I'm not gonna worry about it if he doesnt.

I think I have said before that he is the #1 player on this team. He can go to maybe 2-3 teams and still be the #1 player, everywhere else he goes he drops to the #3 player or lower. Maybe he is not wanting all of that pressure of being the #1. IDK.

 

[nine_inch_fang]

And he's going to have to live with the risk that he takes onto himself by doing so, if so. With some of his injury history, and with our team perhaps not likely to have any scoring fireworks, I question his ability to find a better contract elsewhere than he might be able to get with us if he extended today.

Of course, if he got traded to a contender at the Trade Deadline, he might improve his chances of winning something this year. Although it's always such a crapshoot. I'm not sure taking somewhat better but still by no means guaranteed odds of winning this year weighs significantly against the odds of a better long-term contract. But who knows. That's up to him.

Also I like what I'm seeing with Tomasino and Afanaseyev showing well, and I like the Svechkov pick. We seem to have some forwards coming now. Trading Forsberg for some more good futures doesn't terrify me. Contrasted to defense... where I still don't feel like we have anybody Ekholm-like clearly identified yet in the pipeline. Nobody with his size and two-way ability at least. Losing Ekholm would certainly have terrified me more.

Myers is the only current player that could be a future replacement and now there is plenty of time to figure that out. Or try to draft someone.

Edit: I guess we need to see how Prokop and Matier develop. They have the size and are 3rd/4th round picks so who knows.