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This is a good opportunity to learn about what it means to say something is "overpriced." Whenever you buy anything, the market dictates what the chargeable amount actually is. It might take some time for things to adjust, but it will or it won't sell. Same thing with players. When teams are offering more for a player than what we paid, nobody can reasonably say we overpaid for him. But since the rest of the league effectively set the going rate, by definition even if we paid at the top of what others offered we didn't overpay.
Then you have to ask "compared to whom?" which is part of what defines this. Plenty of players make far more not because of their worth relative to other players in the league, but based on what they specifically do to increase their teams' chances of winning. Math doesn't care about bragging rights. We got what we needed which is a top center, fan excitement and increased merchandise sales. That amount will pay for itself rather quickly, especially if we go deep. This team has a new identity.
I tend to toss out fan expectations because largely, they're based on emotion. Also, they're all over the place so it's hard to pin down exactly what those expectations are. I do think by and large people that follow the team know that recently, we haven't been overvaluing our personnel so when we do break out the checkbook, it's for a good reason. All I think we really want as fans is for Stastny to make a big dent come playoff time.
