I don't love that number for Det but you never know with young guys who look promising.
I love it. It's a fair deal for a young player. With this, he either shows he's a 7-8M+ guy on his next deal or you trade him as a rental top 6 guy in a couple years with an affordable deal.
I live in SE Michigan. It's pretty much a shit place to live compared to every other NHL region outside of the Alberta wastelands.
Constant construction, terrible traffic, rude people, nowhere to go and nothing to do, almost no art or culture to speak of. Terrible winters with worsening road management every winter. You have a few nice areas and as soon as you leave them it turns into thunderdome. Most of the people here are rubes. It sucks.
Construction? Yes
Terrible Traffic? Atlanta, Los Angeles, basically any other city larger than Detroit wants to talk to you.
Rude people? People in Michigan mirror the person they're talking to. If they're rude, it's because you're rude. Been a Michigander my whole life. Love helping anyone and everyone. You're a dick to me though? f*** you then.
Art or Culture? Art or Culture are literally anywhere if you look. Do you honestly think NHL players are, en masse, looking to tool around museums? Do you think being in DC and having all the Smithsonian and all the monuments are really something that draws in the NHL talent? And you want to see beautiful land? Literally drive an hour or two up 75 to get out of the Detroit area. Go to the middle of the Lower Peninsula and north. The lesser populated areas of Michigan are f***ing gorgeous. Or the Great Lakes.
Bad winters? Yeah, but bad winters are everywhere. Doesn't get in the negative degrees near as much as anywhere in Canada or Minnesota though. Worsening road management? Yeah, that is a problem. But not in the cities where NHL guys are living.
And word to the wise... 90% of areas around the country are kind of like that. Los Angeles is one of the biggest cities on the face of the planet... it has so many areas that you just don't want to f***ing go to. St. Louis is a pretty nice city... and right close to it is East St. Louis where not a soul wants to tread.
So, no, I don't think SE Michigan sucks. I think you suck.