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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Oh yeah, math was off a little bit (must have added Hyman twice).
It’s not about comparing forwards, though, and we don’t have to call anyone dumb over it. It’s about the amount paid on the number of guys and how workable that is in a cap world (the Oilers number is about to jump up sharply, as I said, so not sure why we care how good McDavid is compared to Lindholm). We can go with the Stars if you think that’s a better comparison at 27.5, or the Leafs at 33.5, or the Islanders at 24.5, or the Rangers at 26.5, etc.
The point is that having Lindholm at $9M is not a difficult number to manage, especially when you look at the rest of the roster and where we’re overpaying vs. where we should expect more production.
He’s a first line center. He’s going to get paid like one. It’s going to be deserved and any cap difficulty from it in year one is almost certainly going to be gone by year 2 or 3.
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There are a lot of first line centers
McDavid
Matthews
Pettersson
MacKinnon
Hughes
Point
Crosby
Zibanajed
Stutzle
Malkin
Miller
Tavares
Hischier
Larkin
Eichel
Benn
Barkov
Pavelski
Kopitar
Aho
Horvat
Scheifele
Cozens
Draisaitl
I guess the question is whether Lindholm puts the Flames on a Stanley Cup trajectory for me. If the answer is no get some pieces that help put the team on that trajectory. I would say he is the 15th to 20th best center in the league who will be in his 30’s for the contract. Unless he is Pavelski he will be worse rather than better throughout that contract. If he is starting as the 17th best center in the league right now, what is he in 5 years?