ViktorBaeArvidsson
Greenville Swamp Rabbits fan lol
With Roman Josi having only 1 year left on his steal of a contract, now it has come to the time where he’ll need to get paid those big bucks as our Top D-man. How much do you think he makes?
They aren't stylistically the exact same, but they do have a similar role/niche/responsibility on their teams... and I could see comparability from the contract perspective - Oliver Ekman-Larsson. He's a bit younger and maybe tips more to defense than offense, but the new 8-year deal he's embarking on is pretty close to where Josi should slot in. Both captains too.Who is the best Josi comparable? He has ok defense and above average offense, basically right on 0.68-0.7 ppg and 5.5 s% each of the past 3 seasons. To be honest his consistency over the past 3 seasons is quite amazing. Precisely 5.5% shooting each of the past 3 seasons.
Now I’m getting a little concerned about the Josi extension. It was called a priority of the summer by the Preds. We’ve had the draft, the PK deal, the Duchene signing, the Josi wedding, the Sissons extension and the Grimaldi arbitration; no Josi extension. The Preds must have been in some sort of continuing discussion with the Josi team all summer. There probably is something holding it up. What is it? Money? Term? No movement? Combination of those?
I vote for No Movement; a Poile no-no.
Josi hasn't been heads and shoulders better than Subban during the Subban years, and I wouldn't even say that he had been better at all collectively.
Josi is the best D we have but also isn't the cream of the crop there is regarding D-men of today.
The point I'm making is that if you really wanted Subban gone for his deal, why are you going the extra length to pay a different part of the core more (despite the cap rising) when the output was and is very similar to Subban?
I guess the answer is mostly loyalty and the fact that he's home grown.
I still don't see why were automatically thinking that there aren't any pieces other than Subban Duchene and Josi.I think most folks would disagree with your assessment.
But that notwithstanding, even if you had thought trading Josi and keeping Subban was the right move, it still wouldnt have made enough cap space for Duchene.
I still don't see why were automatically thinking that there aren't any pieces other than Subban Duchene and Josi.
We have Bonino, Turris, Ellis all as pieces that could have been moved, without moving Subban. That's where the problem lies and that's the hill I die on way faster than the one that Subban is paid too much.
Subban was also traded at his lowest value. See where I'm going with this?It's not even that Subban was paid "too much" Bonino by himself wouldnt have cleared space for Duchene, and Turris and Ellis would have been traded at minimum value because of the seasons they had.