Love the Drake.
Even though he scheduled his wedding on the day of the super bowl.
lol. i was at a wedding when Joe Carter hit his world series winning home run. Luckily there was a tv at the bar. It was more packed than the dance floor.
Love the Drake. Looks like a fair deal. If he outperforms it then bonus. Again no ntc or nmc clauses and no signing bonuses? Sens manage to negotiate without giving them somehow.
Difference of opinion I guess. Like I said, if we have to deal guys because they won't re-sign here, so be it. Enforce the internal signing deadline and get as much trade value as soon as we can't reach an early deal. There's a risk of losing players that way, for sure, but there's also a risk to going long on term. So pick your poison, but given our budget a bad contract or two is enough to sink us. So I'd take my chances on the shorter deals (but try not to walk them straight out to UFA). For Bath, I might aim for a 2-3 year deal followed by a 3-4 year deal. It might cost more than this six year deal, but we're paying a premium for the added certainty, which is safer.Ottawa is not a market that can afford to gamble with short term deals that have players expire as UFA. If you want to be sure to retain players, you have to bridge and go long term after their ELCs or go long term right away after their ELC (Karlsson, White, Chabot, Batherson)
For Tkachuk and Batherson, 4 years would have led them to UFA, which would have been the worst contracts possible. 3 years would have created a Mark Stone situation, not ideal either.
It's really short bridge then long term or long term right away for us.
You do this in markets that are appealing to free agents. We'd have trouble filling in a roster if we let everyone go after a short deal. We need to cling to people we already have.I think I've bought into the concept of just sticking with under 4-year deals at fair market value and avoiding all risk of Ryan/White type deals. I think if you look at most rosters, if you sum up all the little savings teams got by betting on term, it probably doesn't offset the occasional buyout or albatross contract.
Nothing against Bath, and I bet he lives up to this deal. If I'm Dorion I'd just keep all the deals shorter as a matter of team policy. I'd also force an early internal deadline for resigning, after which I'd be putting players up on the trade block. Flip side is I promise players fair market value and don't lowball anybody.
Why would players not want to be traded away from here? (I realize I'm channeling another frequent poster here)Love the Drake. Looks like a fair deal. If he outperforms it then bonus. Again no ntc or nmc clauses and no signing bonuses? Sens manage to negotiate without giving them somehow.
Nothing against Brady, but he isn’t worth what Svech is.Sens can thank Farabee. Good to see the drake isn't greedy and saw the market was set. Maybe Brady will do the same.
WHOOOT!
Drake jut has a feel to him, going to score some HUGE goals for this team.
Trent Mann making another cast off hockey player a multi-millionaire. If Trent Mann calls your name, you're almost guaranteed to be a millionaire. He's the Bob Barker of hockey.
Too much money for the guy who could not play defence at all. -17 last year. And very marginal offence. Kotkaniemi for example was at -1 in the same 56 games. It means Tkachuk is getting 5.5 million in a bridge deal. Which is not fair with the same atrocious -17 the last season, but palatable.