Am I dreaming to say it was somewhere in the 3 million range and with bonuses?
Markov said he would have accepted 1 year deal. Markov was not trying to sneak cash out of the organization, so even if it was more...what was it..1M more? Who cares. We have a ton of cash and no one to spend it on. It's a one year deal.
We have like $10M in cap space. There's no reason whatsoever to not have signed Markov to even a one year $7M contract if he wanted it.
Go back to the threads. There is no hindsight here.
Remember something though, if Bergevin actually respected Markov the whole thing never gets to that point. Bergevin's history of tossing out contracts only seems to apply to players that he respects or likes and not so much to the others. Markov was 10 games shy of 1000 in a habs uni, a big accomplishment, where was the respect for a player that loyal to a franchise? He was arguably our best defender last season and we try and replace him with a handful of scrubs? If Karl Alzner is worth 5 million per year, Andrei Markov is worth at least 8-9 million on a 1 year deal.
We had Drouin before Markov was a UFA. For better or worse, Bergevin was convinced that Drouin would be our #1 centre. I imagine he also figured that Plekanec or Danault would be the #2, with the other one and Mitchell being #3 and #4.
As a player MB could not tie Markov skates. Markov will be better at 50 years old than MB was in his prime.
Exactly!! He tossed 15 million dollars at Alzner,Plekanec and Shaw for this season and people still defend his decisions? He plays hardball with players he does not want and overpays the scrubs that he loves, is it even a debate after 6 years?As a player MB could not tie Markov skates. Markov will be better at 50 years old than MB was in his prime.
But the General was not "foxhole guy" in Bargain Bins skillful eye.
14 year old kids on Youtube knew this so how does it slip by an NHL gm? There is nothing left to defend at this point, you will never see things like 99% of the rest of us do, keep on believing.
Everyone knew the Habs needed a centre, but Bergevin thought he had one. That's my point. Bergevin had no intentions of going after someone else via free agency. He had his man.
Do not agree, the center situation was "filled" in Bergevin's mind the second he got Drouin.I disagree on this. Markov can barely play a full 82 game schedule and we needed as much cap space as possible if we were to add another piece. It's easy to evaluate in hindsight but the plan in the summer was to go after a center if the situation presented itself. We were entertaining offers for Galchenyuk so the cap space was important... at the time
Your point doesn't matter though.
