Player Discussion Price's contract ( Poll ):good or bad

[coolasprICE]

No middle option.. yes or no.

Do you like this contract?

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[ohmyjlord]

I don't mind the terms or the AAV.
...I just mind them when they're put together.

 

[Hackett]

Price got what he deserved, but I'm a habs fan first, and I don't like it.

The mentality of the team being built around a superstar goalie is not good enough for the ultimate goal. Its just gotten that much harder for the habs to build a Stanley cup threat, especially for a management team that has struggled hard in the drafting department for several years now.

 

[HabsDood]

Need option, it's ok

 

[le_sean]

Where's the "pure garbage" option?

 

[Genesis76]

Price got what he deserved, but I'm a habs fan first, and I don't like it.

The mentality of the team being built around a superstar goalie is not good enough for the ultimate goal. Its just gotten that much harder for the habs to build a Stanley cup threat, especially for a management team that has struggled hard in the drafting department for several years now.

Hes not that superstar, he gets beaten by any goalie in the playoffs and Halak took his spot....yes HAlak

 

[Genesis76]

Need option, im gonna need a chill pill

 

[The Real Guy Lafleur]

Limits our cap flexibility enormously. Losing Radulov would be a mistake.

 

[TheAntiPrice]

Career Playoffs:
60 GP
25 W
31 L
2.53 GAA
.914 SV%

Looking forward to early playoffs exit for the next 11 years.

 

[Le Tricolore]

It's about $1M more than I would have wanted, but I'm happy we have Price for the next 9 seasons.

 

[wildD]

I more in the middle option
I like the 8 year term, but the no movement and 10.5 is hard to swallow.

 

[peate]

It's about $1M more than I would have wanted, but I'm happy we have Price for the next 9 seasons.

Pretty much this, I would've liked 6 years 50 mil with a generous bonus.

 

[TheBlindFan]

What make my laugh is "the best goaler" received less the 12M and that a good deal... it's like the Crosby contract for me.

Good contract, We all know that it would be high. 10.5 AAV is good. Superstar have
Got the max (Kopitar, Toews, Malkins, etc.)

 

[Dagistitsyn]

What make my laugh is "the best goaler" received less the 12M and that a good deal... it's like the Crosby contract for me.

Good contract, We all know that it would be high. 10.5 AAV is good. Superstar have
Got the max (Kopitar, Toews, Malkins, etc.)

I can't quite put my finger on it but I think there is something that those guys may have done to earn it that Price hasn't come close to yet... hmm...

 

[Seb]

Loving the deal. He's the best goalie in the NHL and deserves every penny of this contract.

 

[Phil Parent]

Not my money, he'll be good for at least 5 of those 8 years, and afterwards (if he's still around), Lindgren will be ready to start for cheap and we'll just have a very expensive platoon for a while, then maybe that final year is an anchor and a half we may have to dump in Arizona... as if they'll still be around by then. We'll dump him in Vegas, there you go.

 

[Legend123]

good deal but it fixes nothing

 

[nhlfan9191]

Hes not that superstar, he gets beaten by any goalie in the playoffs and Halak took his spot....yes HAlak

There you are with Halak. Lol it's been 7 years since he had his fluke run, when are you going to get over it?

 

[Frank Drebin]

It's terrible

 

[nhlfan9191]

We've had 8 years of Price at $2.75 and $6.5. That's a ridiculous amount of time for management to have to put a good product in front of him. In that time, he's finished top 5 in Vezina voting 4 times, won a Hart and Lindsay, Gold Medal, and WC. It was time to pay up. The raise sucks but it was inevitable.

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

Id like it lower but thats on MB. He has only made the team worse even with cap friendly deals and Molson is ok because of a few playoff dates.

It wasnt going to change. Because Molson is an idiot, MB will be around a minium 5 yrs. MB knows Price ensures this.

Its the way it will be until Molson accepts more than just losing in round one and cans MB.

 

[HabsDood]

Career Playoffs:
60 GP
25 W
31 L
2.53 GAA
.914 SV%

Looking forward to early playoffs exit for the next 11 years.

There's a clause in this new contract, he will keep a 2.0 goal average in the playoffs, I mean score two himself, so he can win some games.


If you don't like him now is the time to leave maybe, he'll be here for always.

 

[CHwest]

It's a lot of money for giving up one less goal every ten games or so.

 

[vokiel]

I don't like it, but if you are going to be stubborn about building from the rear this is the kind of untrade-able contract you are going to end with. It was easy to predict, just like how it's going to end.

(Compliance buyout...)

 

[waffledave]

I think the contract is too much but it's the price you need to pay for someone like him in this market.

Where I think it's totally ****ing stupid is where you go and commit this kind of money to him but you do absolutely nothing to address the holes at D or at C and have no plans, no vision, and are hamstrung by the cap in the short term so you can't do anything. How can you give him this contract and have no follow up moves after?

Edited for sensitivity