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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Interesting. I have the opposite view - that the Weegar contract has minimal risk. He's a quality dman, and the only question is he top pairing or middle pairing. But if you are overpaying him, it's probably only by a little through the life of the contract.
Whereas the Huberdeau contract has the potential to hurt you a lot more if you are wrong.
I viewed the Weegar deal as more of a no brainer.
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The Weegar deal will look better as time goes on for sure. Even if he's only a 35 point guy here on average.
Huberdeau is a tough one. He has looked so terribly out of place at times that it makes me wonder how he was ever a 90-115 point player. Then he has spurts where he shows his crazy skill set and you realize that it's all there under the hood.
If he eventually settles in as a 80 point guy, it isn't going to be a big deal, but if he's a lot less than that on average, the Flames are going to have a hard time with that contract in a few seasons. Another 6-7 EV points so far out of him would possibly have the Flames with 2-3 more wins with how tight a number of their losses have been.
You really have to hope he's figuring it out sooner than later.