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Originally Posted by ricardodw
If you are going to pay Monahan, Gaudreau, Brodie and Gio and Wideman 6-8M a year the 3rd liners will have to make 1M /year......
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Everything is wrong in this sentence.
First of all, Monahan Gaudreau and Gio do not make 6-8 million.
Brodie is signed for 4.5M until 2020 so I don't see why we would be paying him 6-8M.
Even if Monahan, Gaudreau and Gio did make 6-8 million, we could still afford to pay our 3rd liners 2-2,5M instead of 1M, just like the Minnesota Wild does, despite having Vanek, Parise, Koivu and Suter.
Generally speaking in todays NHL 4th liners make 0.5-1M, 3rd liners make 1.5-3M.
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and Raymond is/was a career 3rd liner.
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Through the last five seasons his icetime has been on average between 15:35-17:21. Seventeen minutes is low 1st to high 2nd line numbers. Guys like Marian Gaborik Mats Zuccarello and Rick Nash are 17 minute players. (And Johnny Gaudreau.)
15 and change is low 2nd to high 3rd line numbers. (Comparisons: Jarret Stoll (6g 9a, 3.25M), Andrew Cogliano (13g, 12a, 3M)).
Raymonds contract is very normal for a player of his age and production, and he will be an easy trade if/when the need arises. This season he's 4th in goals scored per game on our roster. (Raymond has 12 goals in 48gp, closest below him is Jones with 13 in 59.)