News: Logan Couture signed to an 8 year, $64 million extension; official on Sunday

[Kcb12345]

Officially official tomorrow

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[KingTux]

dammmmmn

 

[Kamiccolo]

Right when his best friend JT is about to make his choice for the next 7 years eh? Hmm

 

[HockeyDBspecialist]

How will.the sharks fit all those heavy contracts next year with JT coming ?

 

[MoreMogilny]

Right when his best friend JT is about to make his choice for the next 7 years eh? Hmm

The pieces are falling into place.

Seems like a good deal for Couture

 

[TheWayToRefJose]

How will.the sharks fit all those heavy contracts next year with JT coming ?

Let Pavs walk or trade him

 

[justafan22]

8 million seems fair for around a 0.80 ppg guy, no?

 

[SharksCyclops]

More than deserved, future captain of this team.

 

[DrJustice]

Underrated player locked up to the same deal as Johansen.

I’d say he deserves it

 

[WesMcCauley]

Let Pavs walk or trade him

yep, and Jumbo might retire after the upcoming season aswell.

 

[Hockeyholic]

8 million seems fair for around a 0.80 ppg guy, no?

I was shocked to see Couture will be 30 next season. I thought he was like 26.

It's fair. Still think he is one of the more underrated players in the league.

 

[justafan22]

yep, and Jumbo might retire after the upcoming season aswell.

what's pavelski worth honestly? He's put up better numbers than every year couture since 2012-13, but he'll be just about to turn 35 when he hits UFA (so the 35+ rule won't be in effect here). Say 2-3 years at 6 million?

 

[Juxtaposer]

I’m okay with this. I said when the Kane contract was announced that it would be completely justifiable for Couture to ask for $8x8 years.

Just means that Pavelski is probably gone, which is more than fine with me.

 

[Midship]

I'd take Couture at 8x8 on the Bruins in a heartbeat. Nice signing for SJ.

 

[dkollidas]

This is a fair deal. As a Sabres fan, he seems very comparable to an O’Reilly. The guys who’s a borderline 1C, plays a good 200ft game, but won’t be a ppg guy.

 

[HC7]

Logan Couture 8/8 lmao that's awful. Run John run!

8 to someone that hasn't seen 70 points in their life bahaha

 

[HC7]

John Carlsson had more points than Couture, plays D, and has the same contract.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Lol he will be getting paid 8 million when hes 37-38 years old. Terrible deal.

 

[Kcoyote3]

John Carlsson had more points than Couture, plays D, and has the same contract.

Carlson = 303 points in 608 games
Couture = 427 points in 582 games

Also Couture scores at a .95 PPG rate in the playoffs, if you ignore his rookie year where he wasn't playing very many minutes.

77 points in his last 81 playoff games.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Is it just me or is that a lot of money for a guy that always seems like the secondary offensive option on his team?

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Same AAV as Johansen, makes sense.

Although i think Doug Wilson doesn't see himself as the GM of the Sharks 5 years from now they've got like 35 million locked up on 5 players who are all going to be 32-38 years old, and that's not including Tavares or Pavelski

 

[StreetHawk]

I was shocked to see Couture will be 30 next season. I thought he was like 26.

It's fair. Still think he is one of the more underrated players in the league.

SJ's window to win is the next 3 years. Couture is a 2007 pick, so he's 29 this year/possibly 30 depending on his Bday.
Vlasic is a 2004 pick, so he's 32. Burns and Pavs are 2003 picks, so they are 33. Kane is 2009, so he's 27.

Vlasic, Burns, Kane, and Couture will combine for $30 million in cap space. Leaves $50 million for the remainder of the team. If JT goes there, it drops down to under $40 million for the remaining 18 guys who need to be signed.

 

[These Are The Days]

And people had questions about the Lightning re-signing Miller. We'd just as soon trade Miller himself to make room. To make room on the Sharks they're gonna risk letting Pavelski walk and/or a Thornton retirement next year? Jesus....

 

[Barrie22]

SJ's window to win is the next 3 years. Couture is a 2007 pick, so he's 29 this year/possibly 30 depending on his Bday.
Vlasic is a 2004 pick, so he's 32. Burns and Pavs are 2003 picks, so they are 33. Kane is 2009, so he's 27.

Vlasic, Burns, Kane, and Couture will combine for $30 million in cap space. Leaves $50 million for the remainder of the team. If JT goes there, it drops down to under $40 million for the remaining 18 guys who need to be signed.

Shark fans have been hearing this 3 year window stuff for the past 10 years.

3 years till a rebuild. 3 years later its they got 3 years till a rebuild. And we are still going.

 

[BeaverSports]

I see a lot of people criticizing this based on offence alone. Couture has so many other intangibles in addition to being a good offensive player. He takes on a lot of key defensive assignments, he's a heart and soul leader, and scores at clutch times in the playoffs. I don't mind this for San Jose at all.