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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Nobody ever accused Neal or Brouwer of being two way players. Coleman is a two way player, which is why I did not include him. Brad backed up the brinks truck for mediocre 40 point guys when he signed Brouwer and Neal. I am saying that I would have been totally comfortable with Brad doing the same for Johnny.
For Neal and Brouwer, Brad doled out about 1.2% of the cap value for every 0.1 PPG that they had prior to signing the contract. The ratio is almost the same for both players. If he had done that for a player who had 0.88 PPG in 20/21 he would have had about 10.7% of the cap as his Gaudreau number, conveniently right in the 10-11 percent range that I think should have been his negotiating range.
If you took the PPG player from the previous 3 years, that would have been 12% of the cap (1.2% for every 0.1 PPG)
You make it seem like it was a crazy risk to sign a guy for his 29-36 year old years to a similar or lower percentage of the cap relative to production before the signing of the contract than two previous signings Brad did for guys for their 31-35 year old years and their 31-34 year old years.
I have long been on the record as saying I think the Flames should get a new GM. Regardless of whether the owners say win now, Brad burns through picks at a rate almost unseen in NHL history and definitely at a much higher rate than any previous Flames GM. Messing up Gaudreau is not even the reason I would like a new GM.
And my post said I would have offered 8-9 million. Anywhere in there I would have been comfortable. Not 11 Million. But you knew that.
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They supposedly offered 8. As a starting position. Gaudreau decided to sit it out.
I actually thought you were talking Coleman. If you were talking Neal, sure. Who doesn't think that was a mistake (not an overpayment though if he'd panned out to his normal production). Put another way, maybe in searching for examples of overpayment, let's not go back to 5 off seasons ago.