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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Kind of a bad example don't you think? Since letting Nystrom walk cause we didn't want to pay him what, 1.5 million, he's scored 15 goals twice. Pretty good depth guy at that price. Compare that to our 4th liner Jones making 4 million.
Don't understand people complaining about Bouma's salary. That guy would probably be the captain if Gio wasn't here. He's an identity player. He's hard to play against. He's an ideal 3rd liner. Busts his ass, sacrifices his body and has the skill and smarts to pot a few as well. I'd take more Boumas at that price. Replace Jones, Hudler and Colborne with 3 more Boumas and we'd be light years ahead of where we are.
Ramo is our starting goalie so I don't think you can call him a depth player. Nor is he massively overpaid to be a starting goalie. If anything Hiller was the bad signing. Engelland has been solid and really his price tag wouldn't be an issue if Wideman wasn't overpaid and we didn't have Smid who could fill the same role as Deryk. I think the Engelland signing is perfectly fine.
As for Raymond that is by far, by far, Treliving's worst signing. Terrible term and money for a useless no good player. I'm sure he regrets it.
As for your point about not overpaying Russell, I completely agree. We can't pay him top 4 money but he can command it. So if he wants to stay he'll have to take less. We'll see if they can meet, I'm skeptical. But at that right price I'd totally take him back and then we'd have to move one of Wideman, Smid and Engelland.
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1.4 million was a lot more relative to the cap when he signed the contract. Sure he put up 15 goals twice in 6 years. But he has been a liability on the ice, has had very small point totals, and hasn't been a great producer outside of those two seasons.
I think he is a good example because he is an example of a bottom line / pairing player getting paid to be more then that.
With Raymond, Bollig, Smid, Engelland, Wideman, etc signed through next season we don't have the luxury of signing another depth guy to a contract that pays to much.