Confirmed with Link: Hertl re-signs to 4 year contract 5.625 AAV

[Lebanezer]

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[Used As A Shield]

Good.

 

[STL Shark]

So who is Tierney getting traded for then? Need to push speculation to someone else now lol.

 

[KirbyDots]

Fun must be always!

 

[one2gamble]

money money money.....

 

[Friday]

5? 6? 7?

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Curious to see the AAV. Interesting how our PR always releases stuff before insiders.

 

[AgentCooper]

Can't wait for this contract to get slaughtered on the main boards by the "lol but he's never even hit 50 points!" crowd.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Good. I was reading some speculation in the other thread about trading Hertl and I was getting a little depressed. You don't trade the guy who might be the heart of your team in 2 years, if not already.

 

[WTFetus]

Sign and trade a la Gooch.

 

[KirbyDots]

Curious to see the AAV. Interesting how our PR always releases stuff before insiders.

Cuz we don't really have insiders.

 

[wishman]

I'll guess $5.5M

 

[McDeez]

"Ya fer sure"
The puck possession monster is back!

 

[do0glas]

5.5 to 5.75 my guess.

 

[hockfan1991]

I'm hoping no more then 5 as we are buying 2 rfa years and 2 ufa years

Was a six-year deal. I would have no problem paying 5.5 or six but due to the short term hopefully the AV is better

 

[one2gamble]

DW, after all this bullshit give me a decent contract to hang our hats on!

 

[Rolo]

I'll guess 4.75M

 

[Gilligans Island]

4 yr deal, i say $5M

 

[McDeez]

$4.5m for 4 years would be great.

 

[OffSydes]

Fire DW

 

[Beethovens 10th]

No matter what Hertl is goin..

dat paper tho.

 

[The Nemesis]

So who is Tierney getting traded for then? Need to push speculation to someone else now lol.

I still don't understand the ongoing preoccupation with trading Tierney. He's not a high-demand player. He's not going to bring back an elite return or be the centerpiece of any deal that gets made. And without Tavares and the crazy high cap hit he commanded, the team does not need to pinch pennies and move his (still probably manageable) RFA payout in order to keep the budget on track.

At this point he's probably more valuable to the Sharks than as a trade chip unless DW or an arbitrator goes nutso and awards him like a $4m/yr contract. And especially without Tavares and with no guarantees of what sort of other pieces are on hte market, we still kind of need centers for the bottom 6. I do not now nor have I for most of recent history advocate shoving Hertl down to the 3rd line just to "give him his own line" or something.

Kane - Thornton - Pavelski
Couture - Hertl - Meier

There's your no-transactions top 6. Ideally I'd swap Pavs and Meier but I don't think Joe comes back without assurances he'll get to continue riding shotgun with his bestest buddy. Besides, the advantage of this deployment is that both lines basically have two centers on them (Thornton/Pavs, Hertl/Couture) for added flexibility. It's essentially 2 good second lines instead of a traditional setup, but since we're clearly not going to just out-talent everyone on raw ability anymore, they might as well go the depth approach.

Labanc - Tierney -Donskoi becomes your scoring-capable, hard-working (Tierney and Donskoi at least) 3rd line. Then you build a 4th line out of all the leftovers (Goodrow, Sorensen, Melker if he's still here I guess, Suomela, Praplan, Radil, any of Gambrell/Letunov/Balcers if you're hellbent on pushing them up the ladder now even if its miscast into a 4th line role)

 

[Pinkfloyd]

4 years is probably 5 mil.

 

[Negatively Positive]

5.25-5.5 mill. But DW has been feeling generous lately so I wouldn't be surprised by 6.

 

[anthonyyy]

Since we all expect 5, I'm guessing it's 6.