paul stasny wont come cheap. his price will be nearly 7 mil and term may well be 5 so 7/5 might be the number.
thats alot of money tied up in a soon to be 29 yr old centerman who isnt 24, doesnt skate like the wind, isnt right handed and isnt ror or any other flavor of the month centerman who meets the above criteria. he is a very good centerman who would make us better immediately.
what we are forgetting here is this however, this team wasnt good enough down the middle last season. brad richards is gone. we are left with stepan and brass as our top 2 pivots. we dont match up well with any of the top teams in the east with those 2 and we get abused by the bigger western teams. look at what kopitar, richards and carter did. they crapped on us.
number one priority this off season, other than signing our fa's and improving the awful pp, is to get better down the middle.
i will repeat again, stepan, brass, miller and moore are a nice group but they are a not a competitive group. they wont get the job done. period. im pretty usre av knows this and slats and his gang are acutely aware of this glaring weakness.
we cant score. we dont create much. the pp blows. those 4 above get us more of the same. or worse.
an impact centerman like ror would be ideal. hes gonna cost us bigtime. not sure the price will be worth it. hes very good but hes not a sure fire 1c. neither are the other guys woho might be availabe. unless stamkos is coming, no one is really worth the players we will be asked for.
stasny will cost money. lots of money. look at what callahan just got. crazy money and term. stasny is a much better player than cally and so hes gonna cash for sure.
if theres another option for the next 3 years im not seeing it. standing pat with what we have gets us into the playoffs and thats it. adding paul stasny for the next 3 years gives us the best chance to win the cup.
assuming we can move staal or let stralman walk- not both, let boyle walk and resign the remaining fa's to value contracts. if we do that, i think we can fit stasny in.