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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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Yeah you let him test the market.
I really like Jeff Skinner... but they really got no discount for being the only team that can give him 8 years.
That’s now the 16th biggest contract in the NHL - in line with Benn, Kucherov, and Stone. He’s not at that level of player IMO, has a rough injury history, and you are overpaid based on a career season.
His Career GPG average (0.37 GPG) is really similar to Kane and Pacioretty who recently signed for a $7M cap hit - is he really worth $2M than those guys especially on an 8 year term.
If they could have got him for 5 years at $9M and overpaid to keep the term down that’s fine but to give him that overpay at full term is crazy.
Granted Eichel and Skinner were great together last year...but are they $19M of your cap hit great?