Confirmed with Link: Penguins sign Tanev for way too long and way too much

[Malkinstheman]

Well we better hope he consistently puts up 35-40 points.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Hey cool -- wonder how bulletproof the NMC is on this beaut of a contract!

Full NMC

Ahhh. Beaten to it. I assume you're kidding but who cares... why not... just give it to him.

 

[ChaosAgent]

I just think JR is a laughably bad negotiator with free agents. I like this player but did we really need to even come close to these years/AAV? Present him with 4/$9M and tell him to see what else is out there, but we want him here. If you have to go up later, go up. But I highly doubt anyone else was even in the same ballpark for this guy. Horrible.

 

[cygnus47]

hahahahaha oh man. None of these numbers make sense. JR knows he's not going to be around for more than a year or two of this and he don't care.

 

[xlm34]

I just...he’s a fourth line player on this team. This is so so so stupid. They basically have to move someone else now.

And this is gonna make next summer a mess too. It’s actually impressive how he made the same mistake in back to back summers.

 

[CallArnoldSlick]

Oof.

 

[IcedCapp]

at least we got out from that albatross that was the Kessel deal

 

[Ryder71]

Honestly, anything over two million per or over three years was unwise, this is crazy town!

 

[orby]

Rutherford needs to be fired immediately. This is that bad.

 

[Sideline]

I like Tanev but if it's anywhere near three mil per this is a significant over payment. I can't imagine any other team even coming close to that term or AAV.

Totally agree. I also like the player. Would have loved a deal at 2.5 or less on 4 years or less. This is just a complete screw up. Good drafting and development can easily fill out the bottom six wings with guys that give you 90% of Tanev for 25% of the money.

 

[dogthateats]

Kessel is like 3.3mil more a year

 

[Pens1566]

This is where, if JR had people around him that really cared, you start looking at brochures for Shady Acres retirement community.

 

[wej20]

So you give a guy 6 years to lower the cap hit, What was JR's opening offer?4 years @ 4.5 million?

 

[dogthateats]

This also blocks WBS guys for 6 years

 

[Shady Machine]

Remember all of that cap flexibility we got with AG only have 1 more year?

 

[Gurglesons]

Totally agree. I also like the player. Would have loved a deal at 2.5 or less on 4 years or less. This is just a complete screw up. Good drafting and development can easily fill out the bottom six wings with guys that give you 90% of Tanev for 25% of the money.

Anything but a two year deal at 2 mil was going to suck.

 

[ownal]

What a joke.

 

[canadianguy77]

They'll probably use a compliance buy out on him in 3 years. That means we're likely stuck with JJ for the duration.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

This is what we downgraded from Kessel to Galchenyuk for.

Think about that.

Think about that.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I mean... seeing as how ownership kinda shrugged this past year after JR's "work" and now that he made the HOF... is JR just waving his old man balls around in the organization's face? This just seems like trolling at this point. Or performance art.

 

[IcedCapp]

Kessel is like 3.3mil more a year

Kessel has had produced as much in a single month as Tanev has in his entire career combined

 

[Shrimper]

If he gets 35-40 points it's fine

 

[Jacob]

I just think JR is a laughably bad negotiator with free agents..

I think the entire FO gets their sights set on someone that they believe to be undervalued through-out the league.. then find out they're actually fairly or even overvalued, but they're already locked in and just back up a Brinks truck.

 

[Deutschland Dangler]

Tanev is only 27.

I will point out that Tanev has been steadily improving since turning pro, so I could see the Penguins thinking he's a new Hagelin. They're not signing a guy on the decline like they did with JJ, Tanev did have a good year last year. I hope people are able to separate the contract with the player when he plays here.

It's a 4th liner that plays a high energy style. It's not uncommon for those guys to mail it in once they get paid. You need to keep those kinds of players playing for their next contract, not sign them to core player term contracts. Just absolutely atrocious...again.

 

[Dominance]

It’s okay, guys, really. Tanev is a good bottom-6er. A really good one. We paid him about 1-1.5M too much, but it’s not at all the end of the world. He’s a truly useful asset who works his ass off. This isn’t JJ 2.0

And on the bright side, this pretty much guarantees that JJ is gone before season’s start.