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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
I'm thinking this is a reasonable move, as they have serious trouble signing free agents or those with no-moves, so might as well bribe players to stay.
NHL Players also hate the Oilers.
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Yeah, but that's part of the problem.
They promoted a guy to play with McAvi, and low and behold he puts up career numbers. So now they say "Hey we gotta pay to keep this guy".
Well, no you don't. Find some other schlub who is willing to go anywhere and put him on that line for cheap, he'll get his 20 goals, and you can send him packing next year and save $2.0 MM.
Look at Chaisson. Guy puts up career numbers after a PTO, so they give him $2.1 MM for the next 2 years, moved him off McAvi's line, and he's on pace for about what he's done his whole career, when he was making half as much money.
So next year, if they Keep Kassian on McAvi's line, cool, he'll get 20 goals, but they are probably spending $2.0 MM more than they needed to to get that from anyone on that line.
If they take him off that line, now they're paying $3.2 MM for a 4th liner.
I mean, I'm pretty happy they did it, but it's because it is definitely NOT a reasonable move.