Confirmed Signing with Link: Tom Wilson Part II

[YP44]

reminds me of when Engelland signed in Calgary. At the time people thought the $3M was for the 3 years and was a responsible deal. Turns out it was $3M a year.

 

[Seatoo]

Jim Benning would've given him 8m per season so in comparison this is a steal. In all seriousness though I don't mind this deal to much, it has a huge chance to backfire but could be worth every penny. Its a wait and see deal with risk.

 

[Blades of Steel]

I don't know why my fellow caps fans are even wasting their time trying to convince the haters, let them remain just that. The crying about Wilson will continue as long as he's on the ice not playing for their team.

 

[SprootsMasterFlex]

Gross contract

 

[JTmillerForA1stLOL]

Part 2. Contract still just as bad as part 1.

 

[CHLLL Penguin]

Tom Wilsons biggest hit might be when he forces Maclellan to hit his head against his desk in a year when he realizes how dumb this contract is

Tom Wilson’s biggest hit is his cap hit.

 

[Jim Bob]

Wilson's career PPG before last season: 0.22 ppg
Wilson's PPG last season: 0.45 ppg

Wilson's career playoff PPG before last season: 0.12 ppg
Wilson's playoff PPG last season: 0.71 ppg

His advanced stats were also a lot better this season than three out of the four previous seasons.

The Caps are betting that he stay in that top line role over the bulk of this contract and be like Brandon Saad. I don't know if that is a bet I would make.

But, I get why they signed him to a long term deal and I get why he got paid after an improved year and a really good playoffs in a contract year.

 

[Ridley Simon]

Bro. Do you even know who you're talking about? You're talking about Tom Wilson. The guy that HITS! He also scored 35 points while riding shotgun with Backstrom, Kuznetsov and Ovechkin! He hits other teams players too. He also was like the 6th or 7th most important guy on his team in the playoffs!

Did I mention that he hits?

You sure come across as angry. Yikes.

Anyway.....who pray tell should sit on the PP, in lieu of Wilson? 33 ES points is pretty good, isnt it? I dont get why fans get SO upset about a contract by another teams player?

Oh wait, yes I do. TOM WILSON

 

[Ridley Simon]

This is the trap every cup winning team falls into after they win a cup, they think every bad decision they made was actually good and excuse every every dumb thing they did (The Erat trae was actually good since we won the cup! Every bad move was actually good). Enjoy the cup, make some good memories, but the Capitals will never sniff another cup again, and it will be due to making horrible moves like this

Tell me more, this is fascinating.

As opposed to the Oilers, correct?

One of the things that Tom Wilson consistently does well....is anger every opposing fan base going. Doesnt even need to be one that watches him play their favourite team.

 

[txpd]

Tell me more, this is fascinating.

As opposed to the Oilers, correct?

One of the things that Tom Wilson consistently does well....is anger every opposing fan base going. Doesnt even need to be one that watches him play their favourite team.

I remember when Ov was the most hated player in the league. Now it's Tom Wilson. Assuming the Caps get the typical amount of cup winner national telecasts, the Caps should be the most hated team in the league soon. Csnt wait

 

[AtNightWeFly]

Understatement of the year. The dude is a smoke show.

I'm just here to help out.

 

[God King Fudge]

You sure come across as angry. Yikes.

Anyway.....who pray tell should sit on the PP, in lieu of Wilson? 33 ES points is pretty good, isnt it? I dont get why fans get SO upset about a contract by another teams player?

Oh wait, yes I do. TOM WILSON

It makes Tom Wilson the 125th ranked ES scoring forward last season. 140th overall.

Not exactly a showing I'd consider worth $5M, but as I've said earlier, there's a lot of overpaid guys in the league. TB has one of the worse contracts in the league period, so it's not like we're strangers to it or anything.

Caps fans have always had this kind of weird inferiority complex, and the responses from some of them in this thread are no different. You guys are like ultra rabidly trying to defend the contract when it doesn't even matter.

This is a hockey message board where fans of all teams come to discuss hockey. The overwhelming majority of people participating in this discussion feel that this is an overpay for Wilson. It doesn't mean Caps fans don't like Wilson, or shouldn't like him, or be unhappy with the contract, or whatever. It just means that most people think he's overpaid. Some people (lots of them Caps fans, oddly enough) don't think he's overpaid and that's excellent. Enjoy your player. It's a gamble contract for the Caps. If he builds on it, it looks fine. If he doesn't, it continues to look awful.

 

[Aceboogie]

Tell me more, this is fascinating.

As opposed to the Oilers, correct?

One of the things that Tom Wilson consistently does well....is anger every opposing fan base going. Doesnt even need to be one that watches him play their favourite team.

The Oilers have nothing to do with this. The Oilers arent a good team. But it is interesting yo bring this up. I saw the similar excuses being made by Oiler fans when Lucic was signed and I was saying how bad of a contract is it was. So the similarities are funny to see. In addition, Tom Wilson hasnt done anything to anger me as an Oiler fan. Its just purely a horrible contract and this thread is the discussion on his contract

 

[Aceboogie]

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Wanna see something even more devasting:

 

[StephenPeat]

You may need to head outside and chill out lmao.

Johnson has been underwhelming since signing his deal. He'd be one I'd consider overpaid.

Tom Wilson is still overpaid. None of your little quips about the TB defense or who else might be overpaid changes that.

Sorry.

Let’s just say Tom Wilson is slightly overpaid for WINNING THE CUP. What are the Lightning players overpaid for?

 

[Aceboogie]

This thread is going to be absolutely golden to look back on in 2 years. I want to invent a time machine solely so I can go 2 years in the future to witness Caps fans obliterating MacLllan for this contract

 

[Rick C137]

 

[StephenPeat]

reminds me of when Engelland signed in Calgary. At the time people thought the $3M was for the 3 years and was a responsible deal. Turns out it was $3M a year.

So what you’re saying is that the difference between role players being worth 3 and 5.17 is WINNING THE CUP instead of LOSING IN THE FINALS. Got it. Hey Engelland made it farther than the Pens this year, good on him. That’ll show em.

 

[StephenPeat]

Part 2. Contract still just as bad as part 1.

And your posts no more informative and no less useless.

 

[StephenPeat]

This thread is going to be absolutely golden to look back on in 2 years. I want to invent a time machine solely so I can go 2 years in the future to witness Caps fans obliterating MacLllan for this contract

Can’t possibly be as bad as the obliterating something has done to your ability to spell. It’s 2018, get a spell check or just take a second to use any of the numerous apps on some mobile device you likely own to use the internet to fill in the holes in your head.

 

[Aceboogie]

Can’t possibly be as bad as the obliterating something has done to your ability to spell. It’s 2018, get a spell check or just take a second to use any of the numerous apps on some mobile device you likely own to use the internet to fill in the holes in your head.

Im not going to bother learning to spell the name of some GM whos going to be fired in a year anyway. Ill learn the correct spelling off the next Capitals GM

 

[Pestilence]

Who would have thought we'd ever have a part two of a thread on Tom Wilson, unless it was about a questionable hit? Unless we're talking about Brian MacClellan taking questionable hits. #420blazeit

Well, now that I think about it, it is about a questionable cap hit

 

[Tom ServoMST3K]

This is a bad contract, unless Tom Wilson improves drastically. Then it would be an average contract.

Hey, I get it, if the Jets won the SC, I'd want every single player locked up until the end of time. What baffles me is that they didn't extend Trotz.

 

[Sparksrus3]

The downfall of every cup winner is the signing of depth players to massive contracts after one good playoff run.

The same thing the Islanders did by signing Cizikas for 5 years and Clutterbuck for 5 years. Well , the same except for the Cup win and one good playoff run .

LGI

 

[YP44]

So what you’re saying is that the difference between role players being worth 3 and 5.17 is WINNING THE CUP instead of LOSING IN THE FINALS. Got it. Hey Engelland made it farther than the Pens this year, good on him. That’ll show em.

Engelland made himself actually worth close to $3M a year by the last year of his deal in Calgary. Partly because the cap went up but when the deal was signed the radio guys thought it was $3M over the 3 years. At the time he was seen as strictly an enforcer and it was yet to be seen if he was going to be a F or D.