dtones520
Registered User
A deal that is an absolute bargain over the majority of the contract, is worth it. Ages 29-37 are likely to not be an issue at all. Ages 38, 39 may be a concern... But the cap will go up, and right now we are paying 4.25 million to Quincey who sucks. Ehrhoff probably won't even regress to a point where he is worse than what Quincey is now, and if he does we could have just LTIR'd him. Paying 4.0 million to Ehrhoff in 2021 probably isn't even as dumb as paying more money to Quincey with a lower cap. And you get 7-8 years of really good play to make up for it, in a window where we still have D + Z.
Where did I say that?
Their GM made it clear they only want guys who are onboard, I can understand why it would make sense for both sides to go different ways.
Recapture penalty
They used a compliance buyout, they are on the hook for nothing.
Signing Ehrhoff in 2011 would not have prevented us being able to sign Suter at all. In any way. We would have had plenty of cap space to have both. Having both of them would make the biggest weakness of this team right now a big strength.
You have been very vocal about not signing Cleary, Bertuzzi, Samuelsson, etc to contracts, but you were fine giving a deal into his 40s to Ehrhoff. I don't really see the difference.
And if I'm not mistaken if you use a compliance buyout you are on the hook for 2/3 of the remaining contract. Is that not correct?
I never said it would have prevented us from signing Suter. I said that management likely didn't want to have two 10+ year contracts on defensemen in two offseasons.