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LucicDestroyedHaley
heh, I hope so for the sake of your patience and peace of mind.
But wouldn't bet on it.
Bet on it. If I post there again, you can give me an avatar of your choosing for a year.
heh, I hope so for the sake of your patience and peace of mind.
But wouldn't bet on it.
Management making bad bets doesn't change the fact that good bets are available for pennies almost every single year.
I'll say it again: Cam Talbot's contract has the biggest risk factor of any contract signed by an Oilers GM since at least Andrew Ference, but probably all the way back to Shawn Horcoff. If it goes bad next year, the Oilers will probably not be able to escape it.
Zero chance anyone was signing him for around that. Martin Jones got $3M/season last summer and he was an RFA.Pretty bad contract IMO, Talbot is not worth anything more than $3M per.
Pretty bad contract IMO, Talbot is not worth anything more than $3M per.
Way to early to give this guy 4m a year.
I thought it was steep at first. Then I remembered who else the team has utilised in recent years. We as fans were impressed with Richard ****ing Bachman
All the groaning. Do some posters ever approve of anything?
We just signed a decent/solid/good goalie (not great) to a 3 year deal, that is a bit pricey but not crippling.
What the ---- is the problem?
All the groaning. Do some posters ever approve of anything?
We just signed a decent/solid/good goalie (not great) to a 3 year deal, that is a bit pricey but not crippling.
What the ---- is the problem?
1 mill too much is the problem
term was good-but money wise 1mill to much--considering how long it has taken him to sort of come around. For what he has done in an oiler uniform it is not worth 4mill a year
take a look at Scrivens first 26 games as an oiler then look at Talbot--GAA is a little better but as we know save % is something we now have a better understanding of
Every year your getting goalies off the scrap bin and your taking risk - no offense to you or your post but its wrong in about 5 ways.
95% of the goalies who get traded and are successful is because the goalie in essence can be interchangeable within that respective organization for the reason that systems account for everything.
For the miniscule difference you get from one goalie to the next in the same echelon is a lateral or backwards trade at best.
If you could acquire a Quick/Price type guy who can in lots of ways still be successful when there team is playing well you try to identify that with pro clubs and with your amateur scouting.
Going up an echelon in goaltending - with a team that is defensively horrible is hard enough. Its equally harder to say lets go get Bishop or Neuvirth or all these guys who were given up by other teams that's hindsight and for every player we say we knew he would be good, there is about 10 that we look at as a total disappointment.
I'm not even a fan of Talbot (consistency issues)
but if you took 100 goalies in his same Tier (not a Price, Quick) there all going to perform the same way.
Scrivens: 3.13 GAAtake a look at Scrivens first 26 games as an oiler then look at Talbot--GAA is a little better but as we know save % is something we now have a better understanding of
Eh, Scrivens' technical skills were always god awful in comparison to Talbot. There's only so many times you can get away with poor body positioning and movement control in your crease, and unfortunately for Scrivens he wasn't athletic enough to make up for it.
Had the NHL owners thought through their issues they might have been able to propose a contract with an option which would be great so team owners aren't saddled with unproven players they have to overpay and overcommit to so they sign.
If there was an opportunity to offer Talbot an option contract, say $3.25M a season for 1 and 2 and $6M for season 3, which would be a team option.
If Talbot reaches certain performance scores his option year is guaranteed (eg. placing in top 10 for Vezina voting). Otherwise, it's a team option.
The team is charged the full cap hit over the two years, in this case $4.167M a season, but they can walk away from the 3rd year if he doesn't perform. Player has incentive to earn 3rd year of deal with the security that if he gets injured he's covered.
The final year of the contract can't be less than the first two and place a cap on term a team can option (2 and 3 year deals) and it's only available to players who fulfill certain criteria (older Europeans coming over, inexperienced players who are approaching UFA status before they've played a set milestone number of games, etc).
1 mill too much is the problem
term was good-but money wise 1mill to much--considering how long it has taken him to sort of come around. For what he has done in an oiler uniform it is not worth 4mill a year
take a look at Scrivens first 26 games as an oiler then look at Talbot--GAA is a little better but as we know save % is something we now have a better understanding of