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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Would have been surprising to me too.
But if you were desperate enough for a dman (which Utah clearly was) then maybe you thought overpaying on term a bit was a worthwhile risk.
It's risky but something like $2.5M x 4 for Kylington also has the potential to be a steal.
In the end it does seem the player wanted more stability, his agent thought a 4 year deal would be there, and the agent and player made a bad bet.
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Getting a 27 year old dman who has played one full season in the NHL and is an offensive dman who has limited abilities in the defensive zone would be a hard candidate to show any benefits to a longterm relatively expensive contract. His year over year totals, even if pro rated for 82 games would be
17 points
12 points
10 points
35 points
20 points.
That is a tough stat line for an offensive dman to even get a contract, let alone a long term contract. As a comparable, in Jake Bean’s 4 seasons his point totals pro rated for 82 games would be
23 points
31 points
35 points
15 points
He is a year younger and I feel like the Flames slightly overpaid for his services but at least he did not get 4 years. But if the agent thought that offensive stat line for a dman who is bottom of the league on many defensive metrics warranted a long term deal they were on one hell of a drug at the time.