hahaha, it's pretty hilarious coming from the "let's engage in each other's arguments" and "let's stay focused" You want to have an irrelevant, hypothetical argument when there's clearly no way for either of us to know what's out there. I don't want to discuss alternatives because it's clearly stupid for me to guess. The same reason you don't want to discuss what you'd sign Pacioretty for. The reason I asked is because Pacioretty is a clearly more important part of our offense yet he's not nearly as fanboy swooned over, so easy to make a logical decision with. He shouldn't be paid 7-8 million until he's almost 40, even though he's more productive than Radulov was this year every single year. Same logic. Yes we might need him but signing him to a stupid contract is counter productive.
Yes, if we're stuck unable to score in the playoffs we're looking pretty stupid, there's plenty of ways for us to look stupid in any path, that's why the hypothetical are irrelevant and silly. If we sign Radulov for 7 years, he has 48 points and we can't score in the playoffs anyway because we're running Pleks, Danault and Shaw down the middle we look just as ****ing stupid and we have a boat anchor contract.
I'm not afraid of a raise right now and I'm not specifically afraid of not being able to get rid of him but there's plenty of risk markers on a contract that pool up to make it a less than ideal value, obviously. No one aspect of it "scares" me. I like Radulov fine, but it's alright to be unemotional. I mean, the emotion of the concept of someone not wanting to pay a 31 year old 50 point player 6-7 million dollars for 7 years has you using all caps, lol. So it's a tough sell. I remember how it felt when I was young the Habs traded Damphousse. Sucked. I get it.
Signing a 31 year old to a 6 year contract he's likely not even worth in year 1, is stupid. It's a fun player, it's an easy player to like but it's dumb. He was a 54 point ****ing player. Maybe he's better than most of the guys people have mentioned but they also might not require SIX years to hopefully recreate his "awesome" 54 point "magic" for another 2-3 years before nosediving. He's a good player, he has a price point. Even 7 million is an overpay, bend on 1 of term or dollar, not both. Not for a guy who isn't a special player and doesn't fill a positional need.
