On 2018-08-31 04:15 PM, Chuck wrote:
> I wouldn’t give him a significant raise. If he feels he needs to make up for taking less earlier in his career, too bad, should have had a better agent. If I was an owner, I don’t mind paying top dollar to a forward who is a gamebreaker, and rarely if ever invisible to impact on the game. Rather then a player who has never been much of a power forward as he was supposed to have been.
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Got to agree with Chuck on this one. $6M a year for 6 years for
Pacioretty was a fair evaluation of what he brings to the team. Yes, he
may get 30-40 goals on a good team for the next 3-4 years but when that
goes away (as we found out last year) and he is producing roughly half
that number, he brings little else to the table. He won't hit anyone,
wont score key goals when it matters. Yes he plays a sound defensive
game and kills penalties but Plekanec does that as well as he does for a
little over $1M a year. We'd all be turning up our noses if they were
paying him $6M for 2 or 3 years for that. Now, maybe Pacs just didn't
want to live in LA - fair enough. He turned it down. He can probably get
that $6M from another team on the UFA market but if he has another
shitty year, I wouldn't count on it.