Boud
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- Dec 27, 2011
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We are incredibly lucky to have him as you state, but no one will pay to see him. They are better off trading him and keep the savings and rebuild. If the building was full then there would be no way to trade him. There is no attendance pressure to keep him.
Spending 10+ a year on him with 14k people in the stands makes no business sense.
Hope he stays but there is no financial incentive to do so. Attendance will be even worse next year. Fans are abandoning the team.
Lol do you have any idea how many fans will be in the stands if EK leaves?
A lot of people pay to see him. If Karlsson leaves might as well pack shit and move the team to Quebec. And honestly that's such a weak argument, they will need to sign 2 top 4 defensemen to replace EK and we live in an era where Brendan Smith gets paid 4.25M. Might wanna think a bit more.
Paying EK 10+ is a f***ing no brainer. It should be so obvious to anyone that we should sign him that I don't even understand why it needs to be explained. Look around, look at the contracts players are getting. Average defensemen like Karl Alzner are getting paid 5M. I would take 1 EK over 4 Alzners. Look at Milan Lucic, Kyle Okposo, Loui Eriksson, Andrew Ladd, Brooks Orpik, Jeff Petry, Johnny Boychuk, Marc Staal, Tobias Enstrom, Tyler Myers, Andrej Sekera, Alex Goligoski, Zack Bogosian, Danny Dekeyser, Jason Garrison.. How many examples do you need to realize that it's easily worth it to pay EK what he deserves. Average players nowadays get paid a lot of money, we don't need average players, we need a gamebreaker and that is Erik Karlsson.
The reality is if EK is traded and we want to ice a competitive team we WILL STILL NEED TO SPEND THAT MONEY ELSEWHERE and there's a very strong chance we end up paying a UFA a stupid amount of money he will never even live up to like we did with Bobby Ryan. Great plan. Yes love it.
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