He's so damn good. People just see his size and write him off, but when you actually watch him play, you see he doesn't let that hinder his game whatsoever. He battles with the big guys and can win those battles. Dude knows how to play and it's going to be a shame if we move him. Really hoping he takes a discount to stay here, maybe give him the same deal Scandella got and see if he bites. After all, he is our longest tenured defenseman and we were the one that gave him his shot in the NHL (just wish we gave TyJo that shot too...).
You know his agent is looking at these stats that support his game though and is seeing $$$. Just hoping Spurge wants to stay with the team he's been with his entire career and remain linemates with his best friend.
Or you keep him on as our PP specialist and put him alongside Suter on the first pairing and have close to the deepest and best defensive core in the league for the upcoming years.
There's plenty of ways we can go here.
That really is the only hope in keeping him IMO. If he goes out of his way to make sure his salary works with our cap, enabling the team to keep room for Dumba's obvious salary increases as time goes on, then he will be able to stay.
I just don't expect that from any player... it's such a rare thing to happen in professional sports.
At some point though, this team will be forces to let a high quality player go. It's inevitable in a salary cap world. Look at Chicago... the first every Cap era dynasty team, and after two of their titles, they had to clean house of some high quality players just because they couldn't fit them all under the cap.
You have to have young/cheap players making a big impact in today's NHL to stay relevant for long periods of time. The Wild haven't had many players go from young/cheap to reaching their prime/expensive years until this young current group ages... Spurgeon was really the first of that young group, and as a result, he may actually end up as the first casualty of that situation.
