Not sure why you keep repeating that he was a RFA. Everybody knows this.
Yes everyone knows this, you're correct...but doesn't appear as though everyone
understands this. Apparently, people think that because Subban is a great young player and an RFA, it meant the Habs HAD to sign him to a long term deal off his ELC. Just mostly based purely on the fact that other teams were doing the same with their young -but-unproven stars.
It was a stupid management decision. Of course it was well within their rights, nobody is arguing otherwise, they can sign a RFA to an 8 year deal if they want too.
Not suggesting they should have signed him to such a long term but it's within the team's rights.
PK was already a solid player and pretty much everybody except a handful knew just how special PK was going to be.
Bergevin didn't know PK. I remember listening to him on the radio say how he needs to get familiar with the team because being out west in Chicago he didn't really know Montreal's team. So he wasn't going to sign a player coming off his sophomore year to a longer deal, which is fine. But we all knew how good PK was and the potential that you knew he was going to reach.
I don't know...seems like a prudent approach for a rookie GM starting his new role in a very tough and demanding market with a player who is polarizing. What's the issue here??
The bridge deal was stupid. Players are investments, PK was well worth the investment risk. Simple as that.
Saying it's stupid, doesn't make it stupid...make your case.
The Habs did/are investing in PK. They signed him to a bridge deal, now he's about to sign a huge deal. How is that not investing in the player? Matter of fact, they're about to invest in him more than they would have had they followed your course of action.
Except that PK isn't just another player. He was well worth a big contract already and we should have had the foresight to signing him at a longer term with more cash not to put us in the position we are in today.
yes yes...I know, PK Subban is a God and should be treated differently than any other player on this team. He's without fault. Blah, blah, blah.
you know my history here, i'm as big a PK fan as anyone. But some of you go to the extreme with how thin you perceive his skin to be. As though the guy can't handle going through a tough negotiation, as though the organization just has to give in to whatever he wants because he's so great. Ugh! That kind of thinking is nauseating.
PK held out, so ya, it's pretty evident he was lowballed. How naive are you? You know this. Even you said he was worth more than his deal.
I don't care if you think he was lowballed or not...again, completely inconsequential to this debate. Whatever deal Subban is about to sign next, I bet you anything that he feels he's worth more too. Does that mean when he signs a 8yr 64M deal (just throwing numbers out there), that he was lowballed again??? Who the hell cares about how you or I perceive a contract to look like, all that matters is whether or not both sides agree to the deal. When both sides put their names to paper, it means they are both satisfied with the terms and conditions. That's the only absolute here.