I almost always enjoy your posts, but you're way off the mark itt.
This team needed Haula, Vanacek, and Palat types as all 3 have been a part of competitive and/or winning cultures for their entire careers and improve positions that were lacking.
It's not as if Fitz is Lou going out and signing 126 year old Greene's and Chara's.
It's been stated 50 times here, cap up, other teams willing to absorb it for a pick and retained salary? It'll be fine if it even gets to that point.
I don't know, I think I'm just too disappointed. I was seriously high after they won the draft lottery, and the disappointment of what we did with the pick followed by this contract threw me for a pretty good loop.
I was excited for the team but not anymore. I feel like we're going to be the Canucks. A few really good young players, and GM that just wrecks it with awful contracts. But obviously most in this thread don't feel that way, and I shouldn't ruin it for anyone that's happy.
I'm happy with Vanacek and Haula by the way. Fine with Smith too. And I like Palat, just not the contract.
Again, I don’t agree.
It’s not just about value. You want value deals but that’s not the only consideration because sometimes you want a player who isn’t going to be on contracts that aren’t on the best contracts.
Marchment almost signed with Hurricanes until the Stars stole him away. You think Fitz could have jumped in there? I wouldn’t have significantly out bid the Stars’ 4 year/4.5m offer. There’s a lot of risk there. (Also Marchment’s terrible skating has a lot of potential to cause injury and has in the past.)
And the Tatar signing wasn’t a bad signing, we needed a stopgap scoring forward who could provide production. He was a guy we could sign (after bigger forwards turned Fitz down) who wouldn’t effect our cap longterm. Just because he didn’t produce as much as hoped… that happens.
I’m not happy about some other stuff right now but this is the Palat thread and I don’t want to get too off-topic.
To me the Devils are still building, they're not there yet. And in that situation every move to should maximize value. Once you get to where Tampa was in 2020, it's fine to trade a bunch of first round picks for Blake Coleman and Brandon Hagel. You're going for it, you need certain players at a certain price and you need them right away.
I just don't feel like the Devils are in that position.
I don't actually want Marchment at that price, I was just trying to point out that, yes $4.5 million is in fact consequential.
This person clearly either doesn't understand hockey or doesn't watch it at all. What an annoying troll.
Mmm hmm. Not what I was going for, just genuinly frustrated, but point taken.
