BLONG7
Registered User
Almost every team has a guy or guys who have taken huge deals.......that's what the cap is designed to do. Why the players fought this way of compensation for years, mkes no sense....It is selfish to take max deals in a salary cap world. Your trying to move it to Bergevin evaluation now. Even if it was not Bergevin, Price would have went after a max deal. I don't like it and Price was not the only one. In a way, the covid flat cap is a good thing for NHL teams managing rising salaries
Allen and Price have similar stats. I would have expected Price to have better stats and heading into this season, I said several times.... We need to be a top 10-15 team in offense and top 5-10 in Defense. Of course our team D is not where it needs to be but I see problems when a guy like Allen can come in and produce like Price. Price and Weber have let us down this season cause if they were close to performing to their cap hits, we would be a top 5 defensive team and that's really where we can cause trouble for other teams.
There are sooooooooooooo many players overpaid, it is on every team. The Leafs have done quite well with 3 guys over 11 Million.....we have ONE. They have an organization who has had NO player give them a break on max deals....
So, there is no way you can lay this on Price's salary.....year over year we have had a ton of space, and a GM who did not know how to build a TEAM. No way this is on Price.
EVERY team has players who take crazy amounts of money from their employer. For years, Price was underpaid, now he is overpaid.....it is what it is.
If we had a real GM, it would all be moot....