Proposal: Rumors and Proposals Thread: An Athanasiou a Day Would Keep the Flames at Bay

[Jimmi McJenkins]

But we're still on the lists. We came third in the poll.

Someone was suggesting the poll was from a couple years ago.

 

[3IR]

Gross! If he's looking for 8M a year, he can pack his bags and go find another team. I even thought 6.5M was an over-payment.

To be fair, if he came in asking for 6.5m, he'd probably get talked down to less anyways.
Obviously agents are gonna come in high and try to negotiate somewhere in the middle of their ask and the teams offer. He wouldn't be a good agent if he didn't ask for the moon.

Also isn't there pressure from the NHLPA to basically not leave a cent on the table?

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

All the talk about getting a top six, one of Filip Forsberg or Victor Arvidsson would be nice.

Not realistic. Jarnkrok could probably be had though.

 

[48g90a138pts]

Gross! If he's looking for 8M a year, he can pack his bags and go find another team. I even thought 6.5M was an over-payment.

That's a whole lot more then what we're expecting.

Where's Nurse getting his 8 mil dollar figure from?

 

[McShogun99]

6.5 is the max that he's worth.

 

[McJesusSaves97]

6.5 is the max that he's worth.

Agree with this. He probably starts his ask @8M and settles for something between 6-7M

 

[oXo Cube]

I'm pretty happy if 8M is his ask honestly, because it means he will come well below that once the negotiating is done with.

If I was his agent I might have started at 9.

 

[dem]

How the hell is he asking 8 when Morrisey took 6.25..?

gtfo

 

[McJesusSaves97]

How the hell is he asking 8 when Morrisey took 6.25..?

gtfo

Thinks he's Trouba...give him the ole 6x6

 

[Oil Dood]

That's a whole lot more then what we're expecting.

Where's Nurse getting his 8 mil dollar figure from?

That is called negotiating. Do you not do that when you get a job? Ask for more then you will get because you never know.

 

[belair]

Someone was suggesting the poll was from a couple years ago.

I don't even think the poll matters all that much. Players who don't want to play in a market with a cold climate or play in a fishbowl won't want to play there. I don't think that McDavid carrot is as enticing as is being stated here.

That being said, we're not really big fish hunting these days anyways. But I still don't see guys like Kreider who clearly want to play in an American market waiving.

 

[Oil Dood]

We do have to be careful though as we overpaid a little for kassian and I can see us overpaying a little for Nurse, that adds up eventually.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

I don't even think the poll matters all that much. Players who don't want to play in a market with a cold climate or play in a fishbowl won't want to play there. I don't think that McDavid carrot is as enticing as is being stated here.

That being said, we're not really big fish hunting these days anyways. But I still don't see guys like Kreider who clearly want to play in an American market waiving.

That's fair, I just don't think it's as dire as it once was.

 

[Fourier]

If he is at even $7M and won't budge I think the Oilers will go to arbitration. $8M would make him tied for the 5th highest paid defenseman in the league.

In arbitration my guess is that he gets $5-6M. The Oilers could use someone like Parayko as a comparable.

 

[Oil Dood]

How the hell is he asking 8 when Morrisey took 6.25..?

gtfo

Morrisey should fire his agent. Or he should have waited a year. The cap is going up and so will salaries.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

How the hell is he asking 8 when Morrisey took 6.25..?

gtfo

He and his agent probably don't care that Morrisey might have taken a hometown discount.

In any event, if this is Nurse's ask, makes him likely to be moved in the offseason (if not at the deadline.)

 

[belair]

That's fair, I just don't think it's as dire as it once was.

Completely agree. Though our management group wasn't winning many players over either.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Completely agree. Though our management group wasn't winning many players over either.

that is pretty obvious, the new management has likely much improved that image.

 

[Jet Walters]

He and his agent probably don't care that Morrisey might have taken a hometown discount.

In any event, if this is Nurse's ask, makes him likely to be moved in the offseason (if not at the deadline.)

This deadline? No chance that happens.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

This deadline? No chance that happens.

Probably not, but not impossible. Nurse for Dumba if you move Larsson to Toronto?

 

[Jet Walters]

Probably not, but not impossible. Nurse for Dumba if you move Larsson to Toronto?

I don't think you want to go into the playoffs with Jones or Russell in the top 4.

 

[CaptainSexyPants]

Gross! If he's looking for 8M a year, he can pack his bags and go find another team. I even thought 6.5M was an over-payment.

This happens with every big-ish name guy. Out of town fans believe he's passionately worth W, home fans passionately believe he's worth X, player ask is Z, they settle at Y. Majority of Home fans switch to "slight overpay, I can live with it", Away fans all go "LOL what an overpayment, good luck with that".

People thought Draisaitl was an overpay. Could go either way but in within a couple years the majority of these are not worth batting an eye over.

He'll sign at 7 and we'll be just fine.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

I don't think you want to go into the playoffs with Jones or Russell in the top 4.

Fair enough

 

[CaptainSexyPants]

How the hell is he asking 8 when Morrisey took 6.25..?

gtfo

Using Trouba and Chabot as comparables at 8.
Feels he's above Provorov's 6.75.

Which isn't unreasonable, IMO, if it's his starting point.

 

[Jet Walters]

This happens with every big-ish name guy. Out of town fans believe he's passionately worth W, home fans passionately believe he's worth X, player ask is Z, they settle at Y. Majority of Home fans switch to "slight overpay, I can live with it", Away fans all go "LOL what an overpayment, good luck with that".

People thought Draisaitl was an overpay. Could go either way but in within a couple years the majority of these are not worth batting an eye over.

He'll sign at 7 and we'll be just fine.

And if a prospect like Broberg or Samarukov is breaking down the door we could still easily move that contract or opt to deal Klefbom instead if he's asking for the moon on a new deal in three years.