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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
This really sucks. Smart move by GMGM to keep Reaves out of his division and on his team.
Two year term is nothing, and even if Reaves is SO bad they decide to buy him out next summer, it's a $925k cap hit for two more seasons.
I know a lot of people are starting to sway in favor of hating having a token tough guy, but this was THE token tough guy and IMO he would have made a difference. Not on the score sheet through his own offensive contributions obviously, but more so because the rest of our team would have benefited knowing that he was around to have their backs in case anybody from another team wanted to get chippy.
Maybe a decent analogy would be a group of really good buddies going out to the bar. In that group is toughest SOB around and everyone knows it. Everytime somebody decides to start crap with any of the group, the tough SOB steps up and lays a licking on the wannabe tough guy. So most of the time nobody messes with that group, and the other guys in the group have a good time at the bar knowing A) nobody is going to #### with them and B) the odd time somebody does try, your tough SOB buddy is going to clean house.
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Or...now hear me out...you can go out to the bar without expecting to get into a fight? I'm not sure how you party, but I certainly don't even consider violence if I go out for a few beers.
I get that Reaves has value on the market, but I wouldn't have paid any more than $1.5 million for him. Glad we didn't sign that deal.
And I'm fully on the Jiri bandwagon of getting head injuries of any kind out of the game as much as possible. Fighting is just one part of that, and I'd be happy to see enforcers out of the game. Policing hits to the head of any kind needs to be much stronger to make a difference, and you aren't going to get concussions out of the sport altogether, but reducing the incidence of concussions as much as possible MUST be a priority in the sport going forward, or you're going to have a lot more long-term effects for these players that could lead to an early death. If you care about the sport at all, you don't want to see it have the problems that the NFL is going to inevitably have in dealing with this issue.