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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Because you're not allowed to have two star centres? I'm not sure I follow your logic. Why does he fit in Boston but not in Dallas? Bergeron is a better player than Seguin. Is it age?
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You can have two superstar anythings on your team, as long as they serve different functions.
Famous superstar combos that fit
1A Gretzky (playmaker)
1B Messier (power forward)
1A Sakic (sniper)
1B Forsberg (power forward)
1A Yzerman (sniper)
1B Federov (shutdown)
1A Crosby (playmaker)
1B Malkin (sniper)
Potential Tavares combos that fit
1A Tavares (sniper)
1B Pavelski (power forward)
1A Tavares (sniper)
1B Bergeron (shutdown)
Potential Taveres combos that don't fit
1A Stamkos (sniper)
1B Tavares (sniper)
1A Matthews (sniper)
1B Tavares (sniper)
1A Seguin (sniper)
1B Tavares (sniper)
Having two #1 Centers is certain advantageous, but only if they both serve different purposes. In my opinion, at least. Otherwise you're paying two people a lot of $$$ to fill the same role.
TBL is already paying a 28 year-old #1C sniper $8.5M for the next six years.
Tavares at $10M x 5 would mean they'd be paying $18.5M/yr (or roughly 25% of their cap space) to fill a single role.
TOR will be in the same position next year when it's time to re-sign Matthews. Actually, they'll be in an even worse postion, as there is no way Matthews doesn't get at least $10M.
Dallas is in the same spot as TOR next year when it's time to re-sign Seguin. Though, since Sequin is a UFA, they may convert him into some assets at the deadline... but only if they're incredibly stupid. Seguin is two years younger and has very similar per-game stats as Tavares. If signing Tavares on July 1st means no more Seguin next year, I would walk away from the table right now.
That's all just from the team's perspective. If I'm Tavares, I'm also looking at the fact that I'm 1A in BOS, SJ and NY - but 1B in TOR, DAL and TB.
I'm just not convinced that dedicating 25% of your cap to two people is the way to go to begin with, but especially not if it's for two people who both fill the same specific role on the team.