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Originally Posted by Brad Marsh
Lol. Guy has hit 50 once in his career. Other than that ONE season, he has been over 40 points one other time.
Once in 7 full seasons. And unless he hits 50 this year, that's once in 8 seasons.
Now all of the sudden he is a consistent 50 point player?
You can love the contract without stretching the facts or making stuff up.
I haven't seen anyone in this thread try to argue that he isn't a second line centre right now, or that he doesn't bring elite defensive play. He is and he does. I even think $5.35 right now is very good deal.
But this is a 6 year deal. We will be extremely lucky if his play only declines at the end of the contract, as you are suggesting. I think it's much more likely that his play will decline earlier than the end.
It happens to most players in that age range. You very rarely get great value out of these kinds of contracts.
These arguments about the last 2 or 3 years not mattering are fine now, but I suspect the fan base may feel differently when we ar paying $5.35 M per year to a 3rd line centre that still has two more years on the contract.
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Making stuff up? I simply stated a fact. Over the last 3 seasons, he has 134 points in 221 games (before last night). That's a 49.7 point pace.
134 / 221 * 82 = 49.7
We get it (because you've posted 16 times in this thread), you don't like the contract. That's fine. But facts are facts, even when they don't fit your narrative.