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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
No, I'm not. Read the post I was responding to.
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I read it. The fact remains that possession exits are not a good measure of individual defensive ability.
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In what world is giving the team more flexibility to send him down without salary consequence giving himself a better chance of setting him up for his next NHL contract.
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That is not the only point in dispute before the arbitrator, as you know perfectly well. By asking for $1.15 million, Wotherspoon is virtually begging the team to bury his contract and replace him with a younger player with a lower cap hit.
I note that various posters pointed this out, but you did not take exception until I agreed with them; at which point you carried on as if the point had never been made. Very sloppy of you.
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Did Wotherspoon's two-way contract benefit him last year over Bartkowski's one-way contract? Wotherspoon was probably the better defenseman last year, but the contract nature dictated who would play in the NHL and who would play in the AHL.
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No, what dictated that was that the team wanted Wotherspoon to play and didn't mind if Bartkowski sat on the bench. As it happened, Wotherspoon played in 67 AHL games, and Bartkowski played only 18 NHL games. Being better than Bartkowski was not enough to put Wotherspoon in the regular NHL lineup.