"monster cap hit". Lol.
$7,857,143 is peanuts these days for a player of Weber's caliber and status, who incidentally, is not only worth the money by himself but also makes other players around him better. You can pair this guy with a $1M-worth D like Mete and he suddenly plays like a $3M D.
7.85 is not peanuts and Weber has been injured for the past year. He hasn't helped the Habs get anywhere good - one impotent first round exit and one massive collapse is the Habs' record since we've been graced by his almighty presence. Nashville didn't get anywhere with him either. If you think it's a team sport and blame can't be placed solely on Weber, then you can't also claim that Weber makes the players around him better - evidently it isn't much.
And Mete was on an ELC, of course he'll be 1m. Mete isn't particularly good either, I'm a noted critic of the kid - he doesn't produce and is too weak. He's a warm body who can skate well. He'll be a replacement-level player if he doesn't improve. Mete didn't improve much since last year either. 3m d-men don't produce less than 10 points.
In 13-14 the cap was at 64.3M. Five years later the cap is now at 79.5M, a 23.6% increase overall. In another 5 years, we will be close to a 100M cap at this rate. And that's a conservative projection. The NHL has several more plans up its sleeve to expand revenue growth. In the last two years of his deal, Weber's salary will probably be that of a UFA second pairing D. It's nothing.
That's a good point, I hope it happens. Weber is likelier to be a 2nd-pairing d-man by the time he's 35 (two, three years from now) than he is to be a topX d-man, which he isn't.
Even if Weber declines, this deal will likely not financially hurt the franchise any more significantly than deals like Alzner (comparatively speaking and taking cap increase into consideration). I hate Alzner and his soft play and it's a bad deal but it's not handcuffing the franchise.
I couldn't care less about the franchise's finances. They steal money from the fans at this point. Alzner is a bad contract and it is these bad deals that prevent the relatively small overpayments to better players, such as Markov or Radulov, take place.
The hard bits in Weber's contract were swallowed by another franchise. Bergevin acquired a quality player with a perfectly fine contract going forward. The money paid is right. The cap hit is right.
The cap hit isn't necessarily right but yeah, he made sure Nashville decide if they really wanted to keep him with that frontloaded deal. Good for him, get paid big guy.
What we have here is the Subban fan club once again turning on any member of the organization they need to to fit their twisted narrative. Now I'm going to sit back and enjoy LyricalLyricist factually correct things left and right.
Not twisting much around. It's my perspective. And I'm clearly a huge fan of Subban. I watch the Habs because they're my hometown team but it isn't the logo that skates around on the ice, it is a team of players. Subban was an exceptional player for the Habs and it made me a bigger fan of the team. Of course I'd lament the loss of Subban, and of course it is clear that Weber is a clear downgrade from Subban so it doubly hurts. That doesn't mean Weber is a
bad player, just one that I won't extend courtesies/benefits of the doubt toward until he earns my fandom and support. A good playoff run will do just that - that's how I fell for Subban - but Weber's never had a good playoff run and the time is ticking. Doubt it's in the cards for him given the state of the franchise.
. I will give you at least one post to explain your "monster" reasoning
C'mon....
