They will start with the fact that contracts are rising each year, and teams are learning that paying for guys based on what they have done is not as smart as paying a guy for what they think he will do. The real losers are the middle 6 veteran players who were looking for a pay day and probably wont get it (thanks to the 2016 UFA class and their great performance thus far)
That was literally never a thing.Last season he was worse than a concussed Ekblad. Ekblad signed his extension after his 2nd year when he was looking like the McDavid of defensemen.
This kid is NOT worth that much right now. Not even close. You can't regress that bad in year 3 and think you can command 80 million over 10 years.
Ekblad is less than year older, has been bigger offensive threat so far in the NHL, even though Provorov
is supposedly the more gifted one in that department
Once again the rangers have created a domino effect by grossly overpaying players,they never learn.I would try and trade to get as much as I can for princess provorov.10 million, **** me that is funny, give me some of the **** that guy is smoking. Jesus Christ provorov, enjoy the KHL
Would hesitate giving him 6 lmao. On fans hi on him are Flyers fans. Everything I have seen is a decent 2nd pairing d-man.
Meaningful and contested contract negotiations are good for the league. (Especially since there is a hard cap so it does not actually affect the profitability of the league at all.) It keeps news coming out year round, and gives people something to be excited about and engaged by even when no games are going on.