Quote (Secksii @ Dec 18 2020 03:35am)

Of course there is no guarantee, but the odds of him staying put in Ottawa where he was happy with his role, team, coach, & found success to revive his NHL career is more favourable than risking it to go to another team under Quenneville where he wasn't too happy with his deployment during his brief stint w/ the chicago bhawks. Also before his time with the Sens it looked like he was going to be a fringe nhler going overseas. Yet, you think he can suddenly become a 60pt player on a better team to replace hoffman..? I doubt that, but I guess anything can happen.

He also didn't leave Sens cuz he didn't like the team, he left because of money. He thought he's worth 5x5. He probably also thought he could at least get better than 3x3.25m deal, but clearly that wasn't the case as he settled for 1yr/1.7m due to most teams being fucked by the flat cap.
I agree Sens have a shitty cheap owner, but they weren't a basement team when they had ek, stone, Hoffman etc. They became a basement team after blowing the team up to rebuild, so Im saying their team full of good prospects will be 3+yrs developed and be a better team than today. And assuming Duclair stays consistent, he would've established himself on the team as a vet, or at least proved to the league he's a consistent 40+pt player for a 5x5 contract.

Quote (dragoneth @ 18 Dec 2020 00:50)

once those prospects want $$ they will be traded for picks i dont ever see the sens having a truly competitive team unless they draft and develop a big crop of prospects within a small window and they are all on elc/bridge contracts
and i like duclair hes a bit one dimensional but hes got some good properties hes fast and hes got a nice shot i always felt he was misused in a bottom 6 role on teams

he probably wont get 30-30 but i wouldnt be surprised if he puts up 25-30 goals and in a non covid season easily fetches 3+ mill like the sens offered by other teams
shit the fact the sens offered him 3m says to me hes probably worth at least 4

Quote (Secksii @ Dec 18 2020 03:56am)

https://i.imgur.com/lWwfDrB.jpg

I agree he will easily get 3m from other teams once covid is done and league goes back to normal. But the fact is he lost money overall from representing himself, and usually when players take risks like this, it's for a huge gain... Not to hope breaking even on what they coulda got

Quote (dragoneth @ 18 Dec 2020 01:19)

idk he lost money thats not doubted but to say its because he represented himself idk how true that is with covid i dont think an agent could get him much more or he just says "sign with ottawa" so he gets paid he coulda did that on his own
i kinda like when players bank on themselves too and i think hes one of the guys thats got the stuff to do it but if he signs 3 years with the sens and becomes a 30-40 point regular thats all he is a 30-40 point guy probably make 2-3m
even if he has an average season on florida hes probably getting similar points and can fetch that 2-3 on a team of his choosing worst case sorta deal
but if he has a big year maybe he can get 4-5 million for like 4-5 seasons like he wanted and in the end it pays out more even with the loss of the 1 year in florida


whether it pays off or not we will see shit like that is part of what makes seasons interesting ^^
im not sure what the graphics to show me maybe that they estimate hes valued at 3.5? i have no idea what the rest means but seems shot creation and scoring is good ... thats pretty handy ^^

Quote (StayPositive @ 21 Dec 2020 13:36)

Klefbom out for the year

Bad Oilers D just lost their top guy