Sorry, am I supposed to be sympathetic. The Montreal GM approached me and asked me to negotiate a paycut so Primeau could stay in Montreal, I agreed to it, and now your all slagging my client and saying he's overpaid. Sorry, I don't see it your way since it was a mutually accepted deal.
If a GM is so happy with a deal, I'm more then glad to look at a buy out.
But don't expect me to be as sympathetic to requests for paycuts in the future if this is the kind of treatment that my clients are going to get
(You all do realize that this is in character right)
You do realize that Primeau is now under contract for more years now than he was before, thus ensuring him money for three more years? In three years time there is no way Primeau will be even close to a 6mill man.
You need to look at it that way as well. Sure you took a pay cut but you got a longer deal and are giving him guarenteed money for more years.
In this deal he'll make more in year 3 BY FAR then he would if he was still under his old contract.
Yes I realize that, I also realize that I could have held onto the 9 million dollar contract for next year, then gone to free agency and only had to get a 4.5 million per average deal over two years minimum to get the same kind of money as the three year deal. And chances are for a player like Keith, its likely that somebody would have wanted him bad enough to take that deal. So while its nice that we managed to restructure the deal, I didn't really come out ahead in anything more then security.
I look at the rosters in that division and I'd put Primeau as the first-line centre on more than one of them. Is it unreasonable for a first-line centre to get close to 10% of the payroll?
It's not unreasonable in the (admittedly rarified) air of the JTIR world, I know that.
Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@Jul 6 2005, 10:25 PM Yes I realize that, I also realize that I could have held onto the 9 million dollar contract for next year, then gone to free agency and only had to get a 4.5 million per average deal over two years minimum to get the same kind of money as the three year deal. And chances are for a player like Keith, its likely that somebody would have wanted him bad enough to take that deal. So while its nice that we managed to restructure the deal, I didn't really come out ahead in anything more then security.
In all honesty - Primeau would have been bought out and not made 9.2M this year - that point is moot. However, I felt that 6 M would have been the going rate given the limited UFA market. I think the Cory Cross situation confirms my esimate. Primeau was a solid contributor last season in Montreal. He is rated 77 with good DF and excellent experience - he totalled over 50 points playing on each of the top three lines.
As far as the trades go, Primeau might have been only player in Montreal be on the opening night and playoff roster. So a couple moves here and there would only move him closer to the league average.
That being said - I'd take Primeau back at his 6M salary if the asking price wasn't too high.
