Confirmed with Link: Rangers Acquire Rights to RW Barclay Goodrow; Signs Contract (6 Years, $3.642M AAV)

[Adam Fox Time]

I see people saying the dollar amount is fine (not a bargain obviously) and it's the term that's really bad.

I don't get it? If he stops being good, send him to the AHL. We can afford it.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Does he take # 11, 9 or 2?

With the audacity he had thinking he deserved this contract, he takes #11 & tells Messier to go f himself

 

[Anthony5967]

Not nearly as bad as people are making it out to be. People love to complain about everything. Your team didn’t have an ounce of grit, leadership, guys that have won, etc. This isn’t NHL 21. It wasn’t clear to some that TB didn’t win until they got Coleman and Goodrow? $3.6M cap hit for six years. Will he be here six years? Most likely not, but the deal for four years won’t be bad. Eat half at the end for the final two years or figure something else out. You also are a NY team without the tax break advantage that a team like TB has. You sign him before he hits open market, literally isn’t signing before that unless you give him that. Wins face offs, tough, can play, kill penalties, etc. Guy has two Cups.

 

[egelband]

Glad this isn't a full NTC situation but I hate that teams basically have to offer minimum six year deals to any UFA now.

Yes. I guess the only good thing (for teams) is that this really forces some good talent to take cheap deals. So there should be plenty of diamonds falling through the cracks at the end of the summer. To fill out the roster.

 

[Synergy27]

It’s too much money and too much term but it’s impossible to optimize everything like spreadsheets suggest you should. He fills a need for the next several years and that’s all there is to it.

 

[Doctyl]

I see people saying the dollar amount is fine (not a bargain obviously) and it's the term that's really bad.

I don't get it? If he stops being good, send him to the AHL. We can afford it.

That’s not really how things work anymore

 

[nyr2k2]

I see people saying the dollar amount is fine (not a bargain obviously) and it's the term that's really bad.

I don't get it? If he stops being good, send him to the AHL. We can afford it.

That's not a thing anymore. You can only save up to the NHL minimum salary plus $375K when burying a contract. So in 2024-2025 for example you can bury about $1.15M of a contract, meaning he'd still count $2.5M against the cap.

 

[Barnaby]

I see people saying the dollar amount is fine (not a bargain obviously) and it's the term that's really bad.

I don't get it? If he stops being good, send him to the AHL. We can afford it.

These aren't the Wade Redden days. You can't just bury garbage contracts.

 

[Barnaby]

It’s too much money and too much term but it’s impossible to optimize everything like spreadsheets suggest you should. He fills a need for the next several years and that’s all there is to it.

This. It is an overpay, but not dramatically so. Now helpfully they'll have some young guys who can take up roster sports on cheaper deals.

 

[Hire Sather]

I mean you could bury him and save some.

 

[Barnaby]

I mean you could bury him and save some.

True, as stated above he'd still count for 2.5 million against. At that point, you may as well just buy him out. I don't think there is a big difference.

 

[bmoak]

Makes me want to puke. Should have just ate the 7th rounder and let him walk. There's not another GM in the NHL that gives Goodrow this contract.

 

[Anthony5967]

People forget too that Drury isn’t waiting six years to win when Panarin is 35. If they don’t win in four years then this probably didn’t work out like it was planned to in 2018.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

CapFriendly now has the contract details uploaded, so those of you who hate the deal can go try the buyout function and see how NOT terrible it is. (You know, presuming he declines, and presuming you can’t then trade him for peanuts if he does.)

 

[Adam Fox Time]

I honestly didn't know that you can't bury contracts in the AHL anymore. When did that end?

 

[nyr2k2]

CapFriendly now has the contract details uploaded, so those of you who hate the deal can go try the buyout function and see how NOT terrible it is. (You know, presuming he declines, and presuming you can’t then trade him for peanuts if he does.)

If you bought him out after the fourth year of the deal, you have dead money charges of:

25-26: $725K
26-27: $3.225M
27-28: $833K
28-29: $833K

So you'd only do that if you needed the space on 25-26, because for 26-27 you'd only be saving $400K. Anyway, it's not an especially problematic contract however you slice it, particularly once the cap begins rising again.

 

[nyr2k2]

I honestly didn't know that you can't bury contracts in the AHL anymore. When did that end?

I believe that change was made in the 2013 CBA.

 

[Charlie Conway]

Yep--mountain out of a mole hill.

A little long, but easy enough to buy it out, retain, or even just absorb the buried hit. This is 4% of the cap at the moment, but once the cap goes up, it will look better. No complaints from me.

We have no one like him in the lineup, nor anyone on the way in the pipeline.

As long as 2 or 3 of any of the recently-drafted/signed players work out, there are enough ELC players coming along to keep things cheap. In another 2 years or so, we'll be able to hopefully reap the benefits of keeping our draft picks.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

If you bought him out after the fourth year of the deal, you have dead money charges of:

25-26: $725K
26-27: $3.225M
27-28: $833K
28-29: $833K

So you'd only do that if you needed the space on 25-26, because for 26-27 you'd only be saving $400K. Anyway, it's not an especially problematic contract however you slice it, particularly once the cap begins rising again.

Yep, you save most of it in year 5 and $400K in the last year. And if you buy him out after three years, it’s:

-$247,222
$1,002,778
$3,502,778
$1,111,111
$1,111,111
$1,111,111

A very manageable contract, especially as time goes on and the cap starts to rise again, as you say.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

I honestly didn't know that you can't bury contracts in the AHL anymore. When did that end?

2013 CBA.

 

[PuckLuck3043]

Makes me want to puke. Should have just ate the 7th rounder and let him walk. There's not another GM in the NHL that gives Goodrow this contract.

Absolutely untrue. He would have gotten a similar contract on the open market. Players are going to get paid.

 

[BroadwayStorm]

The Salary Cap should go up considerably by 4 years from now. If it doesn't Hockey won't survive. This is not a bad contract.

 

[Machinehead]

Makes me want to puke. Should have just ate the 7th rounder and let him walk. There's not another GM in the NHL that gives Goodrow this contract.

If this were true he wouldn't have gotten it. GM's don't do this for no reason.

 

[bmoak]

If this were true he wouldn't have gotten it. GM's don't do this for no reason.

Wade Redden says hello.

 

[Machinehead]

If it doesn't Hockey won't survive.