[thymebalm]

This is one arbitration case where I think the team has all the leverage and the likely decision will fall a lot closer to the clubs offer than the players ask.

Kulak is the definition of a league minimum salary. Fringe player, waiver fodder, no point production, nothing to separate him from any of the other guys at the bottom of the league. If Kulak doesn’t deserve the league minimum than nobody does really. He’ll be lucky to get back to or above his original qualifying offer through this process. I don’t think it hurts the relationship between player and club as much as he’s going to feel like his agent wasted his time.