As I said, the locker room stuff can’t really be a discussion point with you given that you have chosen to simply ignore the evidence.
You, on the best goalie to ever play for us: “over the hill, over paid, cap casualty, non contributors nobody wants on the team anymore...”
Players should be lining up to play in front of folks like yourself who carry such thoughtful opinions on a star players, once they start to decline. It would be neat to read your opinions in EK at 35 making 12 million a season....lol.
Common sense again: PD can try to sign players, and can offer them as much as he’s able or willing. The players also have to sign when they are impending UFAs. Summary: PD can try hard to get a deal done AND the player can still choose to walk. No one has to be a big fat liar, I hope that clears that up for you.
The whole point with an RFA is that he can’t just walk away, and he doesn’t have to be traded. His options outside of signing a deal are arbitration if he’s eligible, signing an offersheet if one is offered, or sitting out. There is no realistic scenario where the team ‘can’t’ sign him. I don’t even see a realistic situation where the team wouldn’t be willing to pay big and long for him, given that he’s in a completely different point in his career than either Stone or EK.
Like with White just now, a deal will get done and you’ll fall silent until the next sky is falling moment comes along.
Naw, you're the one taking extremely limited "evidence" too literally and have peddled it off as gospel for a while now. Besides, it was mostly poor goaltending and Dorion's inability to construct a competitive roster after the personnel losses and injuries that led to the collapse anyways, so why bother trying to bring up locker room drama?
It's pro sports man, don't be so sensitive about labeling. They have all hit the lotto financially and are revered celebrities, it comes with the territory. When you're done, you're done and you get called out for it if you're still on a big contract. He
was the best goalie and I celebrate him for that, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to call it like I see it. People like yourself celebrate not signing Karlsson or Stone because they
might be overpaid over life of his contract, but I can't call a spade a spade because of his history?
Yup, all these guys engaged in contract discussions signalling they want to stay, while ultimately not signing. Stone in particular was there for them if they offered market value. If they'd offered market value in all aspects, they would have locked up some of them. Again, believe what you will though.
You know exactly what I mean with this one. Quite obviously RFA's can be forced to sit if they don't sign or receive an offersheet. I never implied otherwise. The fact remains, if they don't offer him market value he will end up playing elsewhere, unless you think he'll sit out his entire career over signing an offer sheet or requesting a trade to a team that would pay him accordingly. You are confident they will pay him 10-20 mil bonus money in year one, I am not and have seen nothing but cost savings for years giving me that impression, even giving up assets for small salary considerations that pale in comparison to expected TC bonuses.
And you'll be here with your walls of opinionated text on your mission to try to drown out anything negative. I guess we fit then.