nyquist contract

[Soft Rock Renegade]

latest khan article says they're talking one or two year contracts and that they differ on money for two years, though nyquist would prefer a 2 year deal. my question to those of you who know the CBA better than i do: is he still RFA after a one or two year contract?

also, my guess, for the hell of it:
nyquist wants 2x1.5

detroit has offered 1x950k or 2x1.2

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[1st Line Interloper]

latest khan article says they're talking one or two year contracts and that they differ on money for two years, though nyquist would prefer a 2 year deal. my question to those of you who know the CBA better than i do: is he still RFA after a one or two year contract?

also, my guess, for the hell of it:
nyquist wants 2x1.5

detroit has offered 1x950k or 2x1.2

To my knowledge he would be, just like Smith and Andersson are still RFA's after their contracts expire.

 

[ricky0034]

he would still be an RFA at the end of his contract even if it was 3 years

 

[Unfriendly Ghost]

Odd to me that Detroit only wants a short term deal. Hmm.

 

[Kronwalled55]

If they're offering a 1 year deal, you have to think one of Nyquist/Tatar is going to be shipped out at some point. Both contracts would expire at the same time. That's the only thing I can think of because it really doesn't make sense to give him 1 year. He's proven he has NHL level talent, why pay more for him later when he actually produces instead of "buying low" now?

 

[Detroit Sports*]

I don't get why we don't like Tatar but love Cleary. Also can someone explain the Sammy situation to me? He can't be bought out or waived?

 

[sully6one]

You guys realize we have very little cap space. If we sign him to a one year deal compared to a two year deal we'll save about $300k and that may be the difference in keeping DeKeyser up in the NHL or sending him to the AHL.

 

[Detroit Sports*]

You guys realize we have very little cap space. If we sign him to a one year deal compared to a two year deal we'll save about $300k and that may be the difference in keeping DeKeyser up in the NHL or sending him to the AHL.

How did we go from having so much cap space last year to almost none? I know the cap is going down but what else? We lost Flip and Brunner. Got Alfie and Weiss what else caused our cap concerns?

 

[FlashyG]

How did we go from having so much cap space last year to almost none? I know the cap is going down but what else? We lost Flip and Brunner. Got Alfie and Weiss what else caused our cap concerns?

Howard got a raise of 3.25 million dollars
Kindl got a raise of 1.52 million
Weiss makes 1.9 million more than Flip did last year.
Alfredsson makes 4.15 million more than Brunner did.

That's just under 11 million more than last year just in those 4 moves.

 

[Adityase]

How did we go from having so much cap space last year to almost none? I know the cap is going down but what else? We lost Flip and Brunner. Got Alfie and Weiss what else caused our cap concerns?

Didn't the cap come down?

 

[Adityase]

If they're offering a 1 year deal, you have to think one of Nyquist/Tatar is going to be shipped out at some point. Both contracts would expire at the same time. That's the only thing I can think of because it really doesn't make sense to give him 1 year. He's proven he has NHL level talent, why pay more for him later when he actually produces instead of "buying low" now?

I think the idea is that if we give him 1 year we can low ball him because there's only so much better he can get (especially if he's in the bottom 6) but if we give him 2 years, he'll earn a top 6 slotting (especially after the Bert, Sammy and Alfie contracts expire) and then when he produces like a top-6er we'll have to pay him more. It's a little shady, but I understand the team's reasoning. Also, we do pay our players so it's hard for them to not be given the benefit of the doubt in their own minds... But Nyquist has to think of himself first.

 

[Henkka]

Odd to me that Detroit only wants a short term deal. Hmm.

Short 1-2 year contract will prevent him getting UFA-status after the next contract (and bolting for money).