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Originally Posted by ricardodw
...I think that Backlund is a good hockey player ... giving him a 5.35 year contract at age 29 was a reason to get fired. There was no reasonable expectation that he might be a #1 C and yet is getting paid pretty close to one.
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Mikael Backlund has the #48-highest cap hit in the NHL among centres. He is getting paid nowhere near the top centres in the League.
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Ryan again is an okay player and thank goodness he only got a 3 x 3.15 which was likely a surprise to him to get so much. He isn't and never was 2 M better than Rieder.
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Before this season Derek Ryan was producing consistently at just under a 0.5 pts/GP pace, which is excellent for a third-line centre. He is the #80 highest paid centre in the NHL.
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Andersson was paid top-4 money as a RFA with 4 more years of team control because he looked solid as a #5 d-man on Gio's Norris trophy year.
What was the problem with Andersson coming off a 2x2 this season as an RFA? Would he be disgruntled? IMHO he would jump at signing a 5 x 4.5 which is what he is looking at going forward.
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In the current NHL economy there was no way Andersson was setting on a $2.0 m AAV. You continue to exist in this bizarro world in which players should all be paid like it's 2010. Inflation is real.