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the fact that literally no one that has this surgery has resumed a professional career in any pro sport.
Confirmed with Link: Toews signed to 7 year deal (7.25AAV)
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That's so much worse than just that. Even if he 100% recovers from these surgeries (unlikely), he was away from competition for too long.
- Missed the 2nd half of 2021-22
- Came back for the playoffs BUT didn't train once and didn't take part of any practice
- Missed entirely 2022-23
- Missed entirely 2023-24
Unless you're Mario Lemieux you can't miss that much time and just jump back in, shake off the rust and be effective. Especially at Landy's age and mileage.
Bone Breaker
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someone on the main boards put it in a nice way, imo: Avs will be paying 16,25M for Toews-Makar. aka the best pairing in the league. that is a huge steal, no matter how you try to look at it.
I’m just not that worried about the cap implications of this signing. The great thing about being a cup contender is that there always seems to be an ERod, Drouin, Tatar, etc. that are willing to come play here for nothing because they know what it means for the following contract. It’ll work out.
It's fantastic signing and also very good feeling because you know he took a big hometown discount. It warms your heart.
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Tell her to take a break....
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A lot of people thought Eichel was done
But yeah, it's not pretty situation, I'd say odds are against our captain. I hope he comes back..
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I sure haven't seen it, and I've seen many others say it hasn't happened. Care to share your example?
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Eichel is much younger and never missed an entire season. Landy will miss 2.5 consecutive seasons. That's Mario Lemieux coming back from cancer territory.
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Jordan Williams
I’m fine saying odds are against Landy, just don’t say it has never been successful.
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never heard of that guy, so that's good news!
SirLoinOfCloth
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You just need to speak her language. It's like going to the mall and finding possibly a top-15 most functional handbag in the entire place Pockets galore. Zips everywhere. All the frills and tools you could want from a handbag. Except instead of it costing $3000, it's actually only like $2000. You've like totally banked $1000. Amazing deal.
expatriatedtexan
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That strategy almost got me a watch I wanted. She actually gave me the go ahead but at the end of the day I'm too much of a penny-pincher and couldn't bring myself to drop a grand on a watch. And that watch is not even close to what is considered high horology, it was a borderline low-end luxury watch.
Richard88
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So first you disagree with me about a significant contract having to be moved, but then you conclude your post by saying that Manson could be moved to make room...
Thanks for proving my point I guess 
Richard88
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Until he's actually ruled out you have to operate under the assumption that he's coming back and leave $7m open for him. Otherwise you run the risk of being $7m over the cap and needing to pay a tonne of assets to dump contracts.
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I mean, divide it up, 8mil per player. The 8 mil going to Toews would probably be pretty fair in that case. He is de facto only the second best defenseman on the team so the 9-10mil talked about if he were to go the UFA route doesn't really apply to the Avs I would say...
That said, the 7ish millions he's making with his new contract kicking in is a discount.
But, then the 8mil going to Cale in that case is a huuuuuge discount. Probably by like 5mil. Obviously the case could be made that him and a couple of other players in the league is worthy of max contracts, but being up against the cap it wouldn't be the smartest move, although probably necessary if he asks for it, to give out such contracts.
Girard probably needs to leave, if Bo can stay healthy, giving us two great D-lines of Makar - Toews and Bo - Manson, and one being filled up with minimum or so contracts being 5th and 6th D, playing less in the playoffs but getting us through the regular season.
Great cap management with the cap going up. Well done Mr. Sakic and CMac!
frogman210
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EXACTLY! I was just having this conversation last night with someone lol
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Metallo
NWOBHM forever \m/
Easy, they look for the letters LV or YSL.
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1000% this! Landy will come back. I don't know at what capacity but he will come back.
I bet everyone who catastophized about Toews contract must feel like a complete schmuck right now.
