What do they want? 11 points in 20 games regular season. Played a shut down roll against top players who did nothing during the playoffs - but people are in love with a player who has potential - potential to me is where the promise of Patrick Weircoche, Stefan Noessen being the next Corey Perry, Matt O'Connor being the next Ben Bishop - at some point what happens on your NHL ice surface matters more then what is happening on the ice of Swedish 2nd League team.
Burrows proved this season he was worth it, he'll prove it next season as well. I give credit to Dorion for having and developing Dahlen in 6 months to the point we can get a real playoff warrior for him.
In Context Hanzal who Minny paid a load for - had 13 points in 20 games (2 more then Burrows in the exact amount of games - Burrows scored 2 more goals) and Hanzal had 1 playoff point in 5 games - what about credting Dorion for finding Burrows and getting a player for cheap who had mroe impact then Hanzal did for his team - it's perspective.
it's impoissible as well to argue against the next great thing in Ottawa - Dahlen hasn't done squat but the fact that he had a great WJC gets everyone psyched out - Lazar was Captain of a goald winning WJC team, he didn't even get into Calgary's lineup in his 3rd pro season. Perspective is important here
sure perspective is definitely important lets try this
- 36 years old
- gave him an extension and ntc
- gave him 2.5 million per year before he signed in ottawa and strung some good games together
- prior to that from 2014-2016 in vancouver he put up a 0.36ppg and has shown all indications of slowing down
- traded a highly reputable prospect (dahlen can flop like rundblad but they both had similar hype so its hard to imagine that the best we could get for dahlen was burrows)
that hot streak by burrows in ottawa makes the extension look a bit better but lets hope he can keep that up to justify that contract. But unless burrows somehow goes vintage and puts up the numbers he was putting up with the sedins i really doubt there is anything that makes the deal even in terms of value (unless dahlen flops hardcore).
So the only way to make the trade or at the very least the extension look decent is for burrows to put up points and unless im missing something he is being penciled in to play with thompson and pyatt so it is completely unreasonable to expect burrows to hit enough points to justify the extension
People might even have accepted the extension amount if we paid a lesser price but we didnt. We are banking on a player that has shown a decline in his play to somehow produce at 2.5 million dollars worth and its a bad bet