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Originally Posted by CsInMyBlood
This whole new contracts before they play a game for the team scares me. Reminds me of Matt Stajan getting a big long contract coming from Toronto.
19 goals, 57 points between Cgy and Tor that season. Gets a 4 year at 3.5M a year cap hit which was a hefty contract at the time. Highest point total is 33 after the contract. Has years of 6, 8, 5, 14 goals during that span.
Going to be interesting to see what they sign for. All I know is paying for potential isn't the best situation to be in. Nobody thought Stajan was going to get worse and fall off a cliff, but he didn't come close to the numbers he put up with Toronto.
Get this wrong and we are screwed going forward when you're talking about 7 year deals.
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I knew that the Stajan contract was bad from the get go.
You take a third line guy and give him 1st line time with great line mates and he'll get you 50 points.
Then you pay him big bucks and you realize your first line centre getting 50 points is quite poor and a recipe for missing the playoffs.
So you replace and he because a 30 points anchor.
And, of course, the Stajan situation has nothing to do with the Carolina trade.