Mickey Marner
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His arbitration award won't be that high. The vast majority of goalies go ELC>Bridge>Long-term, so his comparables won't have enormous AAVs. Worst case scenario he gets Binnington (4.4) money.
Letting a Calder finalist goalie walk for nothing seems entirely too silly to even think about.
If Ned doesn't get qualified the GM should be fired.
Ned passed through waivers unclaimed at the start of the season. He played great for 20 games but I can totally see the logic in not wanting to commit $4M/year on the basis of those games to a goalie who would have been lucky just to get a one-way contract for next season six months ago.
as stated previously in the thread, the canes have been up against the cap the last three seasons and are going to be for the foerseeable future. dundon has a philosophy of not overpaying for individual players/employees, but is willing to spend to the cap. we could afford to give dougie what he's asking for (reportedly $8.5m x 8) under the cap but how does that impact the rest of the roster and the cap space going forward? if you can't pay fairly pay necas the next year because you overpaid dougie the year before, does that make sense?Is there a cheaper guy in the league than Dundon? Gonna lose one of his top D and G for that reason alone.
They have made us wait for the off-season all the way to July!Letting a Calder finalist goalie walk for nothing seems entirely too silly to even think about.
I am struggling to see why Ned would be awarded $4 million in arbitration. He has 30 career games. As already noted though, the Canes can go through that process and walk away from any award over $3.5 million.
It seems to me that goalies in Ned's position usually get about $2-2.5 million on a 2 year bridge.
As Friedman mentions in the article the insane and unprecedented Demko contract is likely influencing the Canes thinking on this. Demko had played more NHL games than Ned when he signed but not that many more and Ned's numbers are better. They're probably worried he gets close to but slightly under that $3.5M limit in arbitration based on Demko's salary for the next two seasons.
They would get deals worth more than their QO due to arbitration rights.Title is confusing. Carolina is capable of qualifying both but based on this rumor MIGHT not qualify them.
They would get deals worth more than their QO due to arbitration rights.
But does not make sense to not QO Ned. At worst Carolina does a 1 year deal. Even a $3 mill award is something they should be able to absorb.
IMO Demko's 5 year deal has little or nothing to do with Nedeljkovic's upcoming 2 year bridge deal.
$3.5 million x 2 years is still fine anyway. The Canes nearly paid James Reimer that last year. They will not find another capable starter for less than that and everybody knows that. I think Friedman is just doing a favor to Ned's agent to get a deal pushed through.
Serious question - what am I missing here. Capfriendly is showing the Canes with nearly 30 mill in cap space, with only big time RFA Svech.as stated previously in the thread, the canes have been up against the cap the last three seasons and are going to be for the foerseeable future. dundon has a philosophy of not overpaying for individual players/employees, but is willing to spend to the cap. we could afford to give dougie what he's asking for (reportedly $8.5m x 8) under the cap but how does that impact the rest of the roster and the cap space going forward? if you can't pay fairly pay necas the next year because you overpaid dougie the year before, does that make sense?
with the flat cap for the next few years, the canes don't have a lot of wiggle room to be overpaying players. svech and necas have been under $1m for their career so far. that's not going to continue going forward.