CapitalsCupReality
It’s Go Time!!
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Perfectly fine with it and he could have gotten $6.5 easily. His game will age gracefully imo. He's proven himself as core.
best forward and pretty much only forward on market (assuming radulov stays) he was gonna get paid big
Perfectly fine with it and he could have gotten $6.5 easily. His game will age gracefully imo. He's proven himself as core.
I wonder how much heart and character would matter to everyone if he scored 19 goals last year.
Come down from what? He wasn't getting 7 million a year. At most he'd be 6.5. That's not really a discount, people were pegging him at 6 for 4 years before the season ended...
What a disaster. No hometown discount at all.
That is a long contract but whatever.
I'd like to see him get the C even though it won't happen. At least an A. He leads by example more than any other player we have now. He busts his ass and probably has the highest battle quotient on the team because he gives his all. Dude's a warrior.
I think it was also important to sign him because without him 1RW always seems to be a black hole.
$750K per year isn't a huge discount if you're giving him an additional 2-3 years worth of guaranteed salaries on the back end. Don't pretend this is a back-diving deal like Keith/Hossa/Pronger/etc.