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

[ColePens]

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[ownal]

y o y?!

 

[dogthateats]

I admit that I don’t watch a ton of the Jets, but from the little that I saw Tanev seems to have tunnel vision when he does have the puck on his stick.

 

[Turin]

Anyone wanna project the cap in 4 years? Deal is fine. Trade JJ.

 

[Turin]

I admit that I don’t watch a ton of the Jets, but from the little that I saw Tanev seems to have tunnel vision when he does have the puck on his stick.

He does. He’s a missile. Straight line, all the time.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

He has a head start, already had Torts whining last year.

 

[Gurglesons]

@Empoleon8771 if Tanev turns into a Cooke like presence here I’ll stop bringing up the JJ is a light beer Letang comments.

 

[Lukin1978]

When will old man Rutherford retire? Hopefully soon.

 

[JTG]

I'd actually pay a good sum of money to know what other offers Tanev had on the table. He needs to give his agent a fat kiss on the lips for squeezing 3 extra years out of JR.

 

[bathroomSTAAL]

I'm friends with a Jets fan who was really sad to see him go but nothing makes the term/value any less insane. JR has gotta go before he can strike again next July 1.

 

[Tender Rip]

Brandon Tanev..... 21 million dollars.

 

[ownal]

If our PK gets fixed again then I will be happy.

 

[ColePens]

He's a 2m player. He fits our style but is a bottom 6 guy. 50 f***ing points in his career. 21m. JR is a f***ing lunatic.

 

[Empoleon8771]

He's a 2m player. He fits our style but is a bottom 6 guy. 50 ****ing points in his career. 21m. JR is a ****ing lunatic.

No he's not, he's overpaid but it's ridiculous to say it's by $1.5 million.

 

[JRS91]

I'm friends with a Jets fan who was really sad to see him go but nothing makes the term/value any less insane. JR has gotta go before he can strike again next July 1.

He's going to be a well-liked guy for the way he plays.

Every time I saw him play he seemed like he always gave 110%, skates fast, he's physical and a decent hockey player. The issue is, while he's worth $3.5M, it's the length of the contract. The Penguins have a 3-4 year window to win another Stanley Cup with their core, Tanev's contract is the second longest on the team and his contract will end with Crosby's.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

One million per year or one and a half million overpaid, does it matter?

At least the Pens finally are moving toward building a team that won them back to back cups instead of whatever the hell they were trying to do starting with Reaves.

I get this signing even if it was too rich, too long. It makes sense. It fits.

I can't say the same for too many signings the past couple of years.

 

[ColePens]

One million per year or one and a half million overpaid, does it matter?

At least the Pens finally are moving toward building a team that won them back to back cups instead of whatever the hell they were trying to do starting with Reaves.

I get this signing even if it was too rich, too long. It makes sense. It fits.

I can't say the same for too many signings the past couple of years.

Yeah I mentioned that the moves ARE younger, faster, tenacious. That is the small positive. The big issue is that I guarantee this money will affect something down the road.

 

[Gurglesons]

One million per year or one and a half million overpaid, does it matter?

At least the Pens finally are moving toward building a team that won them back to back cups instead of whatever the hell they were trying to do starting with Reaves.

I get this signing even if it was too rich, too long. It makes sense. It fits.

I can't say the same for too many signings the past couple of years.

It actually is right in the same vein as paying questionable 4th line and bottom pairing D term and cash. See: Fehr, Hunwick, JJ, etc.

 

[Tender Rip]

No he's not, he's overpaid but it's ridiculous to say it's by $1.5 million.

Lets wait and see what is ridiculous. I consider Tanev a very good 4th line checker with a ceiling of being a very good 4th line checker.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Lets wait and see what is ridiculous. I consider Tanev a very good 4th line checker with a ceiling of being a very good 4th line checker.

Tanev was better than a "very good 4th line checker" last year though.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

It actually is right in the same vein as paying questionable 4th line and bottom pairing D term and cash. See: Fehr, Hunwick, JJ, etc.

You keep mixing in guys who were bad fits from the start with overpaid. There is a difference.

I can almost guarantee Tanev will never be useless on this team. I go back to the opposite of guys who bring nothing when not scoring.

Now if you said that the Pens could get many of the same things, maybe not as good as Tanev does, but many of the same things, for less, you have me.

But tossing out examples that simply do not fit to make your point does not work.

 

[Tom Hanks]

It actually is right in the same vein as paying questionable 4th line and bottom pairing D term and cash. See: Fehr, Hunwick, JJ, etc.

If I remember correctly Fehr was signed before Bonino and was told he’d be the 3C but then we had Bonino and Cullen so he wasn’t even a centre. He was a decent signing at 2mil and came off a couple decent years (35 points per 82 the 3 previous seasons).

I guess that’s why he asked to be traded eventually because he didn’t want to be a winger.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

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[ChrisKuuuunitz]

I repeat, we won 2 cups with GMJR, I'm not ready to run him out of town yet. And you can trade him after 2 or 3 years if it's not working out.

 

[Gurglesons]

You keep mixing in guys who were bad fits from the start with overpaid. There is a difference.

I can almost guarantee Tanev will never be useless on this team. I go back to the opposite of guys who bring nothing when not scoring.

Now if you said that the Pens could get many of the same things, maybe not as good as Tanev does, but many of the same things, for less, you have me.

But tossing out examples that simply do not fit to make your point does not work.

More like optimistic fan am I right?