You can't go around hoarding players like him because you are scared they might walk in free agency. Hell, he might even be used as Seattle bait if Avs feel they need to protect someone else.
Is he exposed to Seattle? I don't think you take Graves over him.
The point is, you don't want to marry secondary scoring.We don't have many players like him, he is our best "secondary scoring" option, and i don't see many prospects (if any) with that kind of upside (top 6 scoring winger).
I guess i just believe in Bura more than most around here.
We'll see.
The point is, you don't want to marry secondary scoring.
That does make sense...It would be just a 4 year marriage, we'd get out before she hits 30.
Sakic when Burakovsky and his agent walk into his office and bring up the Anderson contract...
I wish this would have been at least a three year pact, as the Avs didn't buy a single year of UFA by only re-signing Burakovsky for two years.
This x100. Money spent =/= quality of team. The Leafs were right up against the cap this season, look where their cap management strategy got them compared to the Avs. Money doesn't buy championships.I don't know how some GMs do it to themself. The salary cap isn't the "you need to spend this much every year" quota. It is the salary ceiling, the budget maximum. It's not the - wow that team is stupid they didn't spend to the cap, they had all this room, how come they didn't sign the hottest UFA to league max?! All they got was 3M players who will play an effective role on the team and fill gaps... Hey, let's also have 2-3 of our main core players expire the same year, it's not like we could also end up with top prospect RFAs ending up expiring at the same time, too, right?
Uh oh, what players that we badly don't want to trade do we have to trade every season now that we are good?
I get that it can become inevitable, and you need to spend money to win. But man. I for one find it relieving that with Sakic you have staggered contracts and remaining cap space for re-signing players and future opportunities. I know that they swung on Panarin last year and even offered more than NYR did, but still, I found it bizarre how many people were surprised or criticized their off-season. Oh no, they signed Bura, Nuke, and Donskoi instead of Hall long term, what a shame... Sucks that they'll be able to more easily resign their goalies, Graves, Makar, Rantanen, MacKinnon, Landeskog, and many options outside of that, as well as be prepared for Byram or even Timmins' future.
This x100. Money spent =/= quality of team. The Leafs were right up against the cap this season, look where their cap management strategy got them compared to the Avs. Money doesn't buy championships.
Money doesn't buy championships.
MONEY DOESN'T BUY CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Yep, and shit can happen when they do that.Oh and... they have all of their next 3 draft years' 1st rd picks.
I'm all for trading 1st rd picks when the time and need are right. But some teams once they reach contender status they start tossing 1sts around like hot potatoes.
Much to Toronto's chagrin.This x100. Money spent =/= quality of team. The Leafs were right up against the cap this season, look where their cap management strategy got them compared to the Avs. Money doesn't buy championships.
Money doesn't buy championships.
MONEY DOESN'T BUY CHAMPIONSHIPS.
This x100. Money spent =/= quality of team. The Leafs were right up against the cap this season, look where their cap management strategy got them compared to the Avs. Money doesn't buy championships.
Money doesn't buy championships.
MONEY DOESN'T BUY CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Sure, but the themes I see on here every day are always "Every dollar not spent under the cap in a contending year is wasted" and "the team is X million below the cap, we could be so much better if we spent that money" just don't hold water after the Avs spent a season being Cup favorites despite being way under the cap.Money spent right does tho