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Originally Posted by Freeway
The deals you hand out to Dustin Wolf (and others) will be used as precedents for future deals coming out of ELCs. There's no good reason to end up negotiating against yourself.
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I was thinking about this last night. The point you are making is valid on the macro level, but think about how all these deals work. When a player is coming up for renegotiation, everyone looks for comparable players. We do it as fans and I am sure the agents and teams do as well. But I can't imagine there are a whole lot of comparables to Wolf? How many goalies of this age that have limited NHL experience but an AHL MVP and back to back AHL goalie of the year titles?
And again, I am not saying he needs a 6x6. I just think as an organization the cost benefit analysis of throwing the guy a few hundred K extra is worth it. The team has loads of cap space in the short term. If Wolf never translates his success to the NHL, you've lost a bit of money. But as an organization you have to hope and count on him continuing his development. Heck, I think a lot of the rebuilding will hinge on it. As strong goalies don't come along often. So if you are assuming he's the real deal, you go easy on him in negotiations now when you have the chance and then you hope for some of that goodwill back down the road.
We as fans talk about the opposite situation quite often; player xyz takes a team friendly deal last time and so now everyone knows they are looking for a payday.
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Originally Posted by Goriders
.893 save % and 3.16 GAA so far is what he is. Until that improves he’s probably getting paid what he’s worth.
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Yet he put up better numbers than a guy getting 2.2 million?