Confirmed Signing with Link: [NSH] Nashville Extends Ryan Ellis, (8 Years, $6.25M AAV)

[LoovTrain]

Congrats Preds fans.

Good deal from a GM known for making good deals.

 

[ManofSteel55]

Barf barf barf
This is going to backfire so ****ing much
6.5 for our 4th best D IMO for 8 years IS a travesty

When you are paying so little for so many of your other players, you can afford to lock up Ellis at 6.25. Stop barfing, its deals like this that keep teams contending.

 

[DRW204]

What on earth is Josi gonna get?

 

[tsujimoto74]

Playing for a contender in a tax free state-itis

No state income tax =/= no state tax. I promise you Tennessee collects revenue.

ETA: Moreover, because state and local taxes are deductible on your federal returns, I'd wager the impact state tax has on signing decisions is grossly overestimated by these boards. (You pay less, you deduct less; you pay more, you deduct more. Players across different US states with the same salaries probably come out much closer in total tax liabilities than you're imagining they do.)

 

[BHD]

hit is good but damn thats a long term

That's the key to Poille getting players signed.

 

[TitansVolsPreds615]

What on earth is Josi gonna get?

9 at a minimum

 

[Rypien37]

Barf barf barf
This is going to backfire so ****ing much
6.5 for our 4th best D IMO for 8 years IS a travesty

That's a really good thing if he is your 4th best D lol.. Just shows how stacked Nashville's D is.
Really good deal

 

[jetsforever]

I definitely wouldn't call it a "steal" though - do people here think Ellis is actually worth 7+M?

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

Good deal for both sides. Ellis gets a cool 50M on the dot while getting to play for a contender with low taxes. Nashville gets to lock up a great top pairing defenceman at 12.8% of the cap. 6.25M is going to be second pairing money soon if it isn’t already.

 

[Maukkis]

Barf barf barf
This is going to backfire so ****ing much
6.5 for our 4th best D IMO for 8 years IS a travesty

That's like being the fourth richest man in Qatar.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Poile is the best GM in the game. Don’t @ me.

 

[TitansVolsPreds615]

I definitely wouldn't call it a "steal" though - do people here think Ellis is actually worth 7+M?

Isn't Trouba asking for 7?

 

[Erndog]

Isn't Trouba asking for 7?

I'm asking for 7M as well.

 

[BB88]

I definitely wouldn't call it a "steal" though - do people here think Ellis is actually worth 7+M?

It's an UFA contract, San Jose just gave up 7M for Kane, and I'd easily take Ellis over him.

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

Ellis extended + tolvanen and 1st for Karlsson

 

[ffh]

Isn't Trouba asking for 7?

no. 8 million with 2 years left as a rfa

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Long term for a smaller player is always risky but good deal for both sides: player gets long term and team gets a fair cap hit.

 

[Leafs87]

Pretty damn good deal

 

[DRW204]

Any NMC/NTC? NSH currently has 0 on their Fwds and D

Wonder how expansion draft will play out for them, they got full flexibility

 

[Tysonson3]

Good deal for the 20th best defenseman in the nhl

 

[deckercky]

Great deal. Nashville's core really cares about what the team looks like through the 2021-22 season (when Forsberg, Subban and Ekholm have their contracts come up). If Ellis is a bit overpaid towards the end of this contract (and I don't think he will be), it's the cost of keeping together a core for three extra years (assuming Josi will be re-signed, and that seems like a virtual certainty). .

 

[rent free]

Any NMC/NTC? NSH currently has 0 on their Fwds and D

Wonder how expansion draft will play out for them, they got full flexibility

no NMC/NTC whatsoever in this deal

 

[Datsyukian Deke]

Very good deal for him, indeed.

Any NMC/NTC? NSH currently has 0 on their Fwds and D

Ken Holland can learn a thing or two from that.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Term + contender + taxes = great AAV

Goood work NSH

 

[Willy Stylez]

Nice, fair deal.