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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Well what would you guys pay a career 30 goal scorer, who just put up 40, in their prime years, going in to UFA? Let’s keep in mind a proven 20 goal scorer, 3 years older James Neal with no proven roster chemistry gets almost $6M per year.
If he goes UFA, the agent isn’t even returning your call unless your number starts with an 8. Are you really gonna let a 40 goal scorer walk over $1mil? Barely 1% of the cap? Buffalo still has $20 million in cap space after this and no other major free agents to worry about. It’s really a no brainer. If he walked on July 1st, they have $30 million to work with, with their number one need being a goal scoring winger.
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You mean the small guy who has never scored more than 63 points? $6m/year or so. He’s not just overpaid by a million or so. In my opinion he’s overpaid by $2.5-$3m/year.
Neal’s contract sucks now but please continue to try and argue that at the time he didn’t get about what he was worth. Yeah, too bad he doesn’t have chemistry here but Treliving doesn’t own a crystal ball.