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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Skinner is 32 and has never played in the NHL playoffs, yet the Oilers expect him to help them win a championship.
Mantha is three years younger, is expected to help a rebuilding team lose games, and is being paid money that the Flames were required to spend anyway. Without his salary they would be more than $2 million below the floor.
It's a silly comparison.
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Skinner could have also taken more money and went to somewhere like San Jose and dicked around for a year and hope to get traded to a contender at the deadline.
Instead he took probably the least money out of anyone who scored 30+ goals in the last couple of years because I assume he wants to prove his value to a team with Cup aspirations.
Regardless of whether Skinner is going to be successful at helping a playoff team, he surely took a discount to try and prove it.