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

[Friday]

 

[Barrie22]

Tierney would not even be enough to get ryan's jockstrap in a trade.

 

[Dicdonya]

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)

Personally, and even though I’ve said it every year since our cup run, I still want Hertl with the Joes.

I think now more then ever, Thornton is going to need Hertl to do the heavy lifting physically. Hertl has never scored like he should off of Thornton’s wing. If we want to really maximize both players I really believe they need to be on the same line.

 

[WSS11]

Tierney would not even be enough to get ryan's jockstrap in a trade.

Bobby Ryan? He has negative value. Not even close to the player he was in Anaheim

 

[Barrie22]

Bobby Ryan? He has negative value. Not even close to the player he was in Anaheim

Is this the same negative value that boedker had also?

 

[Friday]

 

[AgentCooper]

Tierney would not even be enough to get ryan's jockstrap in a trade.

Bobby Ryan? Considering OTT is willing to let him diminish EK's value in order to get rid of him, I think you might be surprised.

 

[WSS11]

Is this the same negative value that boedker had also?

Except he’s about 3 years older than Boedker, signed for 2 additional years at 7.25MM per year and hasn’t hit 60 points since 2011. Bit of a difference

 

[aircobra]

Tierney would not even be enough to get ryan's jockstrap in a trade.

They'd be lucky to get anything else along side Tierney for Ryan. Ryan's contract is disgusting.

 

[Gilligans Island]

Tierney would not even be enough to get ryan's jockstrap in a trade.

Bobby Ryan alone isn't worth Demelo's jockstrap. What are you talking about?

 

[Hunter Gathers]

That would be very, very fair for both sides.

 

[Gilligans Island]

The old DW $500K extra special

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

4 yr 19.2 m

You do the math

 

[PacificOceanPotion]

Worth it.

 

[The Nemesis]

Personally, and even though I’ve said it every year since our cup run, I still want Hertl with the Joes.

I think now more then ever, Thornton is going to need Hertl to do the heavy lifting physically. Hertl has never scored like he should off of Thornton’s wing. If we want to really maximize both players I really believe they need to be on the same line.

This is why I would prefer Meier with Thornton/Kane over Pavelski. Hertl doesn't get the offensive chances he should with Thornton, but on a line with Cooch and Pavelski he could be a play driver and setup guy with 2 shooters, plus Couture is reasonably good at playmaking too, enough to return the favor to Hertl. Meanwhile Meier gets to be the physical, rambunctious high-engagement player for Joe and Kane, taking some of the burden off Kane to play a reckless physical game that gets him hurt. Kane morphs into Joe's triggerman, and Timo can feed off of everyone's attention being elsewhere.

 

[The Nemesis]

4 yr 19.2 m

You do the math

$4.8m per. Steal.

EDIT: wait, is this being reported? Or are you just spitballing what you'd like to see?

 

[spintops]

The old DW $500K extra special

Lol come on...

 

[The Nemesis]

Is this the same negative value that boedker had also?

Boedker's negative value was "we hate Boedker". This is "Bobby Ryan is bad at the things he's getting paid for. And bad at everything else."

 

[Gilligans Island]

Ah $5.7M AAV - hmm.

 

[Pavelski2112]

Is this the same negative value that boedker had also?

Boedker wasn't paid 7mil+

 

[Friday]

Meh 5.7M could look really friendly if the cap keeps goin up. I thought hed get 6M so whatever

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Damn, I really was not expecting $10.7M between Hertl and Thornton.

 

[hohosaregood]

Whatever keeps Hertl in the bay. I want him to be a lifer

 

[McDeez]

$1.2m more than what i was hoping for but I'm not suprised.

 

[rangerssharks414]

Damn, I really was not expecting $10.7M between Hertl and Thornton.

Neither was I.