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Karlsson To Rangers Discussed In Detail
This exclusive report leaks in great detail the trade packages being discussed today by the Rangers and Senators:
https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/how-erik-karlsson-represents-dilemma-rebuilding-rangers-face/
Don't believe for one second any of the disclaimers by Brooks in that article. He printed the story with that agreement to say it was his speculation. Trouble is he can't speculate those kinds of details.
This exclusive report leaks in great detail the trade packages being discussed today by the Rangers and Senators:
https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/how-erik-karlsson-represents-dilemma-rebuilding-rangers-face/
Don't believe for one second any of the disclaimers by Brooks in that article. He printed the story with that agreement to say it was his speculation. Trouble is he can't speculate those kinds of details.
How NHL salary cap has distorted hockey
by Steve Simmons, The Toronto Sun
Jonathan Toews has been a huge factor on three Stanley Cup championship teams in Chicago and a gold-medal leader on two Canadian Olympic teams.
And yet how is he perceived, at the age of 30, in a hockey world gone mad by salary cap numbers?
As a diminishing asset, that’s how.
One with five years remaining on a contract that takes up $10.5 million in salary cap room for the Blackhawks.
His last Olympic medal came in 2014, the last Cup in Chicago was won in 2015. Toews is signed through to the 2023 season. If it’s a bad deal now, it becomes even worse over time.
Toews has been one of the real treasures in the NHL. A natural leader. A natural winner. With a resume of success few can match.
But in this summer of figuring what the Maple Leafs will have to pay for Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner and William Nylander, none of whom have hit their prime yet, the distortion doesn’t come now, necessarily, it comes later.
We don’t judge players on how they perform anymore. Now we match performance to size and length of contract and can’t seem to view a player for who he is and what he does without referencing his pay grade.
It is the unfortunate teeter-totter of professional sports. We play general manager from home. We talk more about money than about the game.
The salary cap has certainly helped the business of hockey but it has hurt players and forever altered and twisted the relationship with calculator happy fans.
How the NHL cap has distorted hockey
by Steve Simmons, The Toronto Sun
Jonathan Toews has been a huge factor on three Stanley Cup championship teams in Chicago and a gold-medal leader on two Canadian Olympic teams.
And yet how is he perceived, at the age of 30, in a hockey world gone mad by salary cap numbers?
As a diminishing asset, that’s how.
One with five years remaining on a contract that takes up $10.5 million in salary cap room for the Blackhawks.
His last Olympic medal came in 2014, the last Cup in Chicago was won in 2015. Toews is signed through to the 2023 season. If it’s a bad deal now, it becomes even worse over time.
Toews has been one of the real treasures in the NHL. A natural leader. A natural winner. With a resume of success few can match.
But in this summer of figuring what the Maple Leafs will have to pay for Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner and William Nylander, none of whom have hit their prime yet, the distortion doesn’t come now, necessarily, it comes later.
We don’t judge players on how they perform anymore. Now we match performance to size and length of contract and can’t seem to view a player for who he is and what he does without referencing his pay grade.
It is the unfortunate teeter-totter of professional sports. We play general manager from home. We talk more about money than about the game.
The salary cap has certainly helped the business of hockey but it has hurt players and forever altered and twisted the relationship with calculator happy fans.
How the NHL cap has distorted hockey
RIP Ray Emery
From one of the Ottawa hockey writers who covered Ray Emery:
https://ottawasun.com/sports/hockey...enators-goalie-ray-emery-drowns-near-hamilton
From one of the Ottawa hockey writers who covered Ray Emery:
https://ottawasun.com/sports/hockey...enators-goalie-ray-emery-drowns-near-hamilton
Hellebuyck Cashes in
Would you rather have Hellebuyck’s contract or Price’s, as a fan?
Jets, goalie Connor Hellebuyck agree to six-year deal https://es.pn/2NabkGR
Would you rather have Hellebuyck’s contract or Price’s, as a fan?
Jets, goalie Connor Hellebuyck agree to six-year deal https://es.pn/2NabkGR
Carey Price's current contract which kicked off on July 1st and will last until 2026 is possibly the worse contract in the history of the NHL. Plus he has a non-movement clause, meaning it'll cost the team even more if they ever decide to move him.....and it'll be even more difficult since Price would get to chose where he wants to go.
Best and Worst Contracts
Here you go, a compilation by SN of the best and worst contracts of every team in the NHL:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sp...ntracts-every-team/1c6h3an79bil01ck5kf0un1dc6
While this article reports the good and the bad contracts by team, ESPN has a similar analysis of only the good contracts, in which they agree on the Pacioretty contract and call him “the best bargain in the league.” I wonder if this might be why he fired his agent? Collusion/kickbacks from the Habs to the agent? The comments I am reading make this contract seem fishy in favor of the Habs. Now who will overpay on Max to compensate the underpayment and provide much needed financial equalization????
Here you go, a compilation by SN of the best and worst contracts of every team in the NHL:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sp...ntracts-every-team/1c6h3an79bil01ck5kf0un1dc6
While this article reports the good and the bad contracts by team, ESPN has a similar analysis of only the good contracts, in which they agree on the Pacioretty contract and call him “the best bargain in the league.” I wonder if this might be why he fired his agent? Collusion/kickbacks from the Habs to the agent? The comments I am reading make this contract seem fishy in favor of the Habs. Now who will overpay on Max to compensate the underpayment and provide much needed financial equalization????
For a minute i thought Marc Bergevin was now the GM of the Washington Capitals
Capitals sign Tom Wilson to huge six-year contract
by Mike Johnston, Sportsnet
The Washington Capitals signed Tom Wilson to a six-year contract, the team announced Friday night.
Wilson’s new deal is a lucrative one that will pay the forward an average of $5.17 million per season.
“Tom is an invaluable member of our team and we are pleased that he is committed to sign a long-term deal at this point in his career,” Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said in a press release. “Tom is a unique player in this league, in that he plays a physical game, leads by example and contributes in every facet of the game. At 24 years of age, he is just entering his prime and we believe that he will only continue to excel and improve as a player.”
The 24-year-old Toronto native is coming off a two-year bridge deal that had an annual salary cap hit of $2 million. According to CapFriendly, Wilson was given a modified no-trade clause in each of the final four years of his new contract.
Last season Wilson had 14 goals and 21 assists in 74 games.
Capitals sign Tom Wilson to huge six-year contract
by Mike Johnston, Sportsnet
The Washington Capitals signed Tom Wilson to a six-year contract, the team announced Friday night.
Wilson’s new deal is a lucrative one that will pay the forward an average of $5.17 million per season.
“Tom is an invaluable member of our team and we are pleased that he is committed to sign a long-term deal at this point in his career,” Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said in a press release. “Tom is a unique player in this league, in that he plays a physical game, leads by example and contributes in every facet of the game. At 24 years of age, he is just entering his prime and we believe that he will only continue to excel and improve as a player.”
The 24-year-old Toronto native is coming off a two-year bridge deal that had an annual salary cap hit of $2 million. According to CapFriendly, Wilson was given a modified no-trade clause in each of the final four years of his new contract.
Last season Wilson had 14 goals and 21 assists in 74 games.
I agree, but power forwards in the mold of Kevin Stevens and Milan Lucic are a dying breed in the NHL of today, which is more focused on speed & skill. During the off-season the Edmonton Oilers have been trying to get rid of Milan Lucic but so far no takers.
Lucic is coming off a season in which he played 82 games and mustered only 34 points (10 goals and 24 assists) which is by far his worst full season in the NHL and represents a massive dropoff from the last 4 years. His goal to shot % of 6.8 is about half of his career shot %. To say he sucked monkey balls last year would not be an understatement, although at 30 years old he should not have the stats of a 37 year old and one wonders if he was lost in the Edmonton system and they tanked his value.
You make valid points. However as i pointed out power forwards are on the way out in this league since the league has become a league of speed, finesse and skill. Milan Lucic is quite probably the same player he's been throughout his career. It's just that the game has changed so much in just a few years.
I agree that Jarome Iginla was a heck of a hockey player and he'll be a shoe-in for the hockey hall of fame.
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