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Originally Posted by Red
To be successful you need a few bargains on your team. When your starter fails and your back up excels you should take advantage of it. Play the cheap new starter. The Oilers just gave their backup starter money so the bargain goalie is lost.
They are getting a lot from Chiasson. But that bargain will turn bad soon as well. Oilers.....
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Player agents aren't interested in giving teams "bargains." They're here to help their clients get as much as money as possible.
And the Oilers are doing exactly that. They're playing their "cheap" back up who is already making $2.5M. Back ups don't get paid $2.5M. It's obvious he came in as a high potential 1B and he's over taken the #1 job and will be paid to start for them next season.
This isn't a Ilya Bryzgalov like contract here, so I'm not sure why there's so much overreacting. Possibly because it's Peter Chiarelli and he's made a lot of blunders lately and the perception is, he can't do anything right at the moment. But I don't think the deal is as bad as everyone seems to think it is.