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Originally Posted by getbak
$600,000 seems low. That's less than his NHL salary last year. It will be the most he's made in a single season because it's a one-way, but I was thinking he'd be in the $800,000-$1M range (and I wouldn't have given it a second thought).
Whoever negotiated this deal should be working the phones more, and whoever did Engelland's should not (if the same guy did both, he should do more deals like this one).
Now, I have no idea where Bouma and Colborne will come in. One will probably get $3.5M and the other will get league minimum, and I couldn't guess who would get which.
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the differences between Bouma and Engelland are so vast comparing their salaries in any way is a mistake because they are not even a little comparable.
Engelland is an established NHLer, a UFA with upwards of 10 teams bidding for his his services, who received extra money for less years. He also went to a bottom feeder.
Byron is a tweener trying to prove he is an NHL player, he likely has very few opportunities to choose from so the lack of a bidding war and lack of leverage due to being a tweener gives his no negotiating power.
Bouma should come in around 800k-1 million and Colborne 1,500,000(ish)