Confirmed with Link: Andrew Copp 1 year 3.64

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[Channelcat]

Perfect

 

[Cypruss]

One year at a hit we can absorb. Lets make the most of 2021 Jets...going to hurt losing Copp for nothing (potentially) next off-season, but that will be next year's problem. Core all here for THIS year.....lets make it count!!!

Go Jets!

 

[FonRiesen]

Wow, didn't expect it to be below 3.8. Guess that's taken care of - salary cap should be okay, we're good to go!

 

[Guardian17]

Nice!

We really couldn't afford to give him more with our salary cap issues.

If we lose him to free agency, then so be it.

We're going for it!

 

[Channelcat]

We weren't going to get any Ufa years out of him apparently. He can win his cup this year then cash in elsewhere

 

[CorgisPer60]

I knew that neither side thought arbitration was palatable. I'm glad they reached an agreement. This will walk him to free agency, but this still buys them time.

 

[Arthur Fonzarelli]

Great news! The financial reality of using him as anything other than our own rental has been obvious since the Pionk signing.

This even leaves enough to keep Beaulieu around.

Not that I would. Personally the best move would be eliminating both Niku & Beaulieu from the roster & promoting Nogier as the defensive scratch. Leaves almost enough cap space for a full NHL salary.

 

[Rheged]

One year is unfortunate for obvious reasons but it's not a foregone conclusion that he'll be gone for nothing.

Nice they were able to git him in for this season anyways!

 

[mouser]

Wow, didn't expect it to be below 3.8. Guess that's taken care of - salary cap should be okay, we're good to go!

IMO this $3.64m is around the maximum Copp might have received in arbitration for one year. Good chance the arbitrator would have awarded less.

 

[Jets]

Flatish cap next year, Stastny and Beaulieu money comes off the books, but Dubois will need a new long term deal (probably 7 per or more if he finds his game again).

Doesn't leave much room for a higher priced extension for Copp later. But I'm glad he's in for this season at least.

 

[DRW204]

how many players have gone through 2 arb hearings? think they were gonna get something done all along

 

[MardyBum]

Makes sense. No enough cap space for more than a 1 year deal. Could always re-sign him to a long term deal if he's interested.

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

I would rather have kept Appleton than have Copp leave after a one year deal tbh.

Hope we can find a way to make him stay.

 

[surixon]

So walking him right to UFA. Looks like the team is really going for it this year.

 

[Jimmyjets]

Love that he was willing to do what needed to be done to make sure we put the strongest team possible on the ice this year!!! He's such a beauty! Copp's a real character guy so we shouldn't have expected anything less.

Next year we'll need to pay up if we want to keep him but if he decides to go elsewhere he's earned that right.

With Stastney off the books it may depend a bit on the year that PLD puts up and how much of Stastney's money he needs and what will be leftover for Copp's raise.

Not out of the realm of possibility that he extends here next offseason but it likely depends on how this year works out and what he gets offered on the open market next summer.

 

[Channelcat]

One year is unfortunate for obvious reasons but it's not a foregone conclusion that he'll be gone for nothing.

Nice they were able to git him in for this season anyways!

He'll be 28 next year and will have likely played his best hockey. They got 7 years out of him, let someone else deal with the overpriced UFA years. It would be nice to handle every player like that.

 

[gojetsgo]

 

[Guardian17]

 

[surixon]

He'll be 28 next year and will have likely played his best hockey. They got 7 years out of him, let someone else deal with the overpriced UFA years. It would be nice to handle every player like that.

Yup hes getting $5.5 million next offseason for 7 years like Hyman imo. Don't want anything to do with a contract like that. This gives Cole and Ves another year to get ready to take Paul and Andrew's slots.

 

[kylbaz]

I would rather have kept Appleton than have Copp leave after a one year deal tbh.

Hope we can find a way to make him stay.

Been saying the same thing.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

We couldn't give him 2+ years at whatever his demand would have been. Copp signing this deal and not going through Arb or forcing a trade suggests to me that he still wants to be a Jet, so I hope Chevy can accommodate him in the future. Good to have you back, Copper.

 

[Duke749]

The abbreviation is WPG you numbskull!

 

[ecolad]

A one year negotiated extension is not at all surprising , and fits well with the situation that both organization and player find themselves in. The contract amount is probably fair as well.

Got to give Copp some credit here - he's betting on himself and taking a significant risk that he can keep his level of play high this season, even though many suggest last season might have been a bit of an outlier (6 team canadian division only). If things do not unfold as he forsees, he could have much less success with his first UFA contract negotiation.

 

[Oilpeg]

The abbreviation is WPG you numbskull!

Long running joke he's had with the twitterverse, he always uses WIN for Winnipeg because he knows it drives people nuts.