Confirmed Signing with Link: [CGY] Dominik Simon signs with the Flames (1 year, $700K)
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Seems like a decent bottom 6 fwd. Cheap too.
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Intriguing player, would not have minded Edmonton giving him a shot. Wonder what the money will be.
Edit: Wow 700K? Real good deal.
Edit: Wow 700K? Real good deal.
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That was Kahun, who has to be sweating seeing that kind of money being given out. He’s better but not doubly so, which probably puts his ceiling in the $1 mill area on a one-year deal.
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Chris Simon nice. Needed a knuckle thrower.
InfinityIggy
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Excellent value add at 700k. Simon + Norberg make our depth so much better.
Agreed, we needed some depth guys who can play. Losing Rieder, Jankowski and Quine doesn't hurt our depth at all now.
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To be fair, I could have replaced Jankowski.
I'd be being stretchered off after my first shift and the coaches would be like, "still like him better than Janko"
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He got quite a few games with Crosby over the years. So with that in mind his stats aren't that good.
Also don't recall him playing C like ever but maybe im wrong.
InfinityIggy
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The Flames/Pens essentially swapped Jankowski for Simon, here. I imagine they will both fill the same role the other left with their respective team.
I get what you're saying. He perpetually disappointed given his skill set. He was still a warm body with NHL experience though and good on the PK. I'd definitely prefer a different warm body with NHL experience that can PK though.
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And a racist who tries to cut people with his skate blade, can't ever have too much of those.
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Really solid for $700k. His production with elite talent was...well there's a reason he was hardly the most popular player on the Penguins. He does a lot of the little things right and can play in a bunch of different roles, but his game is lacking enough that he was available for this contract a couple weeks into free agency.
In the right role Simon can be an effective role player. Getting him away from Sullivan was, sadly, a necessity as this was one of those situations where a coach liked a player entirely too much (in my opinion, of course). Without the coach over-using him I would have loved Simon back, but I just couldn't take seeing Simon & Crosby out there together again. If Calgary utilizes him as a plug & play-type who goes in the line-up where needed then they'll likely be quite happy with what they're getting. At the very least Simon is above replacement value and is making the league minimum, so that's a win for Calgary even if he's just a spare.
I want to like Dominik Simon more than I do, but sometimes players just get elevated to roles above their talents and that can make them get viewed as something that they're not. Simon at $700k in a limited role should be a really solid signing for Calgary, so long as he doesn't wind up being glued to Monahan or something.
In the right role Simon can be an effective role player. Getting him away from Sullivan was, sadly, a necessity as this was one of those situations where a coach liked a player entirely too much (in my opinion, of course). Without the coach over-using him I would have loved Simon back, but I just couldn't take seeing Simon & Crosby out there together again. If Calgary utilizes him as a plug & play-type who goes in the line-up where needed then they'll likely be quite happy with what they're getting. At the very least Simon is above replacement value and is making the league minimum, so that's a win for Calgary even if he's just a spare.
I want to like Dominik Simon more than I do, but sometimes players just get elevated to roles above their talents and that can make them get viewed as something that they're not. Simon at $700k in a limited role should be a really solid signing for Calgary, so long as he doesn't wind up being glued to Monahan or something.
