Every summer is the ol' Sweeny tradition of trading your young star player for peanuts. Boston can't comes to terms with another young star player and might trade him? My face is the colour of shocked right now.
It's a tough call as to how much of his success was driven by Marchand and Bergeron. Unfortunately my site for WOWYs has been taken down so I can't even quickly look at that.
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Jeremy Jacobs remembers when you could sign a 21 year old 30 goal scorer to a no guarantee personal services contract and the kid would be happy with just a hotdog and a handshake as compensation.
It's a tough call as to how much of his success was driven by Marchand and Bergeron. Unfortunately my site for WOWYs has been taken down so I can't even quickly look at that.
driven by Marchand/Bergeron or not, a 21 year old with a 70 point season under his belt is a must own. I did watch a few of his games and he's not just sitting around the net while his linemates bank pucks off his ass. the kid's got enough moves to make any defenders' heads spin.
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driven by Marchand/Bergeron or not, a 21 year old with a 70 point season under his belt is a must own.
I'm not saying he isn't a great player in his own right, because you couldn't just put anyone there and have them hit 70 points while making up the best two way line in the league (which they were, fight me). But it definitely makes a huge difference in terms of what you should pay him on his first RFA deal.
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