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Aho too can grow beard, some day.Slavin strikes me more as a natural leader of men than Aho.
Aho too can grow beard, some day.Slavin strikes me more as a natural leader of men than Aho.
I think that’s just a symptom of him being Finnish more than anything else
Well, ****. CapFriendly has the numbers now:Well he took less money than I offered so I don’t think he would’ve been too offended
I think he signs for 2 years for close to this season's salary. Something like 2yrs/$4.8M. Maybe the first year is more in actual salary--$3M then 1.8M. Depending on how well he holds up physically I can see him being a practice leader but mostly a healthy scratch in 20-21.I guess Williams finishes his career here, probably signs another 2 year contract and will retire the captain.
He is on this team. That, he has proven. On all teams? Probably not. But the Canes NEED players like him, not just plumbers. He's top 6 on this team all day. Unless Dundon goes out and drops another 10-20m this summer to round out the top lines.
He Proved it for 6 weeks!
I expect our top 6 to include TT, Aho, Svech, NN and Necas very soon. Let's use the Ferland money to really get a Top 6 forward.
Otherwise we're setting ourselves up to have a pretty expensive 3rd line with Jordo and Ferland.
Book it, he has David Clarkson written all over him
It's pointless to keep arguing with these two trolls. Hamilton and Ferland are useless scrubs, lucky to have NHL jobs.David Clarkson?
Have you seen either player actually play before?
And he is absolutely a top six player on our team, and on many.
You can keep saying this all you want, and that's fine. If all *you* care about is the 2019-2020 season, that's your prerogative -- but the FO is responsible for caring for more than that. And overpaying Ferland for *many years* is risky, especially as our younger players develop and need to be paid.
unfortunately, this is the answer. he's a damn good player right now and it's unfortunate that he knows how stupid someone is going to get on july 1st for his services. we're not even entirely positive $6 million gets it done. it's happening in every sport that players are starting to realize the equity they're burning in not taking the first available opportunity to offer your services to the market. when you're between billionaire egos and checkbooks, you're in a good spot. this is a business decision for ferland and we'd have to be bonkers to write him a blank check. whoever signed off on the deal likely thought they could work the season-long appeal on him to get him to forgo free agency in the event he worked out. that approach didn't take. regardless of the asset we lost in exchange, that's the bounces sometimes when you're small market. we looked to be in a similar way with jeff skinner based on the sparse return, but it's still a good thing at the end of the day to not be on the hook for 8x8 for him. some may disagree, but these players that play with finances on the brain do tend to see observable change in their jump when they're six months and 80 games from buying a yacht. plus with ferland we have the unfortunate addition of his stylistic comparables all falling off a cliff into their early 30's.
It's pointless to keep arguing with these two trolls. Hamilton and Ferland are useless scrubs, lucky to have NHL jobs.
So I once read the Finnish translation of John Milton's Paradise Lost dating back to early years of the 20th century. For some reason, the good translator had the mind to add a footnote on the excerpt where Asmodeus or one of the guys was ripping a new one for his fellow Lords of Hell, stating: "This here appears to be humour."LOL, During the last Hurricanes game vs the Senators, Gord Miller and Mike Johnson were discussing Ferland and BOTH agreed that while he's a nice player, that they probably wouldn't sign him to a Tom Wilson like deal.
Why? Because he's not good enough to be a Top 6 forward and he's scored 2 goals in his last 20 games.
Are they trolls?
So I once read the Finnish translation of John Milton's Paradise Lost dating back to early years of the 20th century. For some reason, the good translator had the mind to add a footnote on the excerpt where Asmodeus or one of the guys was ripping a new one for his fellow Lords of Hell, stating: "This here appears to be humour."