News: J.T. Compher will be a UFA on July 1st
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Or Chris MacFarland... Or both I guess?
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I think Compher will garner a lot of interest and end up being overpaid.
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FlameChampion
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Hearing Seravalli talk about him getting 5mil AAV, would probably make me walk away from him too. Good player but I just wouldnt give him the money/term thats being tossed around.
Rob Brown
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Shocked at how many people don't know that he isn't the GM anymore
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I dont know man.
I think theres some PoHo's out there that call a lot of the shots. Seems like Shanahan has a lot of power for your leafs. I think Sakic, McPhee, etc also do.
Sakic is still in the FO as the President of Hockey Operations.
Sakic has always said that’s it’s been a collaborative effort with MacFarland when he was the GM and I’m sure it’s still like that to a, perhaps, lesser extent with MacFarland as the GM.
Rob Brown
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I realize he's still there and I'm sure he's still involved. I just meant it's funny that people are praising Sakic right away when he isn't the GM any longer.
Yeah, that’s fair. MacFarland definitely deserves his props too!
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Damn good third liner. Which is where he belongs. But someone’s going to overpay in free agency based on his performance last year. Very happy it won’t be the Avs.
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Chicago should sit out the first day or UFA and let people use up there cap space and give a few players who get left out becuase they asked to high AAV but a short term (1-2 years ) and they can hit the market again when the cap goes up $4-5 mil the next 2 years.
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I'd say that the whole Colorado FO brass deserves collaborative credit. They seem a lot like Carolina's brass where there's no one person making the decisions.
There's a lot of reasons out there for Compher to get a large UFA contract. It isn't just that he's a center in a weak center market, but also he's only 28 AND he is right-handed. There's considerable amount of utility there. I bet that he'll be able to get the Trocheck comparable, albeit maybe with slightly fewer years than the 7 years that Trocheck got.
There's a lot of reasons out there for Compher to get a large UFA contract. It isn't just that he's a center in a weak center market, but also he's only 28 AND he is right-handed. There's considerable amount of utility there. I bet that he'll be able to get the Trocheck comparable, albeit maybe with slightly fewer years than the 7 years that Trocheck got.
Feels like he's going to get paid in part because he got time up the lineup with guys like Rantanen when the Avs were so badly dinged up. More power to him, though I think a team acquiring him may not have a beast like Rantanen for him to play with and will have buyer's remorse.
Then again, maybe he winds up in Chicago, feeding pucks to Bedard and Hall as a new #1 line there and piles up even more points in the short term...
*shrug*
Then again, maybe he winds up in Chicago, feeding pucks to Bedard and Hall as a new #1 line there and piles up even more points in the short term...
*shrug*
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If ends up playing for Chicago he's going to be the generational player and not Bedard. Guy just loves playing in Chicago and seems to have his most productive games there.
Good. He’s a solid Swiss Army knife 3rd liner, but we can’t pay him to be a 50 point player. He isn’t that unless he’s playing with MacKinnon and Rantanen and he shouldn’t be anymore.
I'm very appreciative for Compher consistently potting in his 15ish goals taking on just about any sort of middle-6 role but man, the circumstances really point to him getting paid a lot more than what he'll bring:
- Extremely weak UFA class, especially at his position
- On the younger end of UFAs
- Outlier season aided by getting bigger opportunities (>20 min/game!) on a depleted team
- Compher has issues giving his best effort consistently so there is a decent chance it'll be exacerbated by getting his big contract.
Go get your bag, JT... preferably with another team in our division.
- Extremely weak UFA class, especially at his position
- On the younger end of UFAs
- Outlier season aided by getting bigger opportunities (>20 min/game!) on a depleted team
- Compher has issues giving his best effort consistently so there is a decent chance it'll be exacerbated by getting his big contract.
Go get your bag, JT... preferably with another team in our division.
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I know he gets dumped on by fans but I'll always be appreciative of JT Compher coming up huge when it mattered most. His GWG out of the penalty box against Edmonton in Game 3 essentially ended the series - he does it over and over and over in the playoffs and he's a more than worthy Stanley Cup Champion
Go get that Chicago money JT!
Go get that Chicago money JT!
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I do think someone is going to overpay JTC a whole bunch. He's got a bit of underrated skill, but doesn't always stay engaged enough to actually make use of it. He was one of my most frustrating players to watch on the forecheck as he mostly did flybys
