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Originally Posted by saillias
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Each of those stats, are stats you need someone to excel at on your team, you need to have. But as has been said before, they are things you need to find "for free" lets say. If you don't, unless you hit a perfect storm of having all your "skilled" talent up front and on the back end all on entry level contracts, you won't have enough money to round out your top end talent and win.
Bouma's contract is currently an overpayment for a bottom 6 player who's biggest contributions we KNOW he will provide are hits, blocks and heart. Might not be fair, but that's not what earns you cash in the NHL. If Bouma puts up the numbers he did last year in the point department moving forward, his contract all of a sudden becomes a steal (as many have pointed out). If he goes in between and his point production drops off a little from last year, but is still much better than his previous years, then the deal is likely right where it needs to be.
Time will tell which it is.