Overall, I'm not seeing much for overpays outside of Chicago with Perry and Foligno but that's a different circumstance.
Only 3 players interested me were Soucy, Geekie and Glendening(4th line faceoff god) for depth.
We have no cap, so no reason to go swimming in this pool prior to lassoing our finances.
Considering $8.5 per is the new $6 per, $4mil is likely the new $2.5mil etc.
Contracts are escalating faster than the cap overall.
I've read Compher is an overpay at $5.1 but that is likely his true value in this market. Now Detroit has a LH Copp and a RH Copp. Maybe they'll run with 15 fwds and 4D.lol
Yzerman keeps saying the goal is to stay competitive in rebuilding and he's still on that. Get to feeling like maybe it's time to break out, but then this. So he isn't ready to call it. Still acquiring useful depth players that he can trade out of.
This is what year 5 of burn it down looks like, after 4 previous years of Holland inking too many god-awful contracts.
HEY!!! Lewis back to a good LA team. So happy for him! Never had a single problem with acquiring him or his play with us. Wouldn't have bothered me to him. If your whole team plays with his instincts, you're Seattle.lol
Great to see an honest hard-working player is still appreciated. He was far from the problem with us.
Looch to the Bruins is fantastic. I'm happy for him. Nobody tries harder or has more passion. I'll go so far as to say that there is likely nobody that did more to instill the NHL's pains into our guys like Lucic. I hated his standing still too often, but he taught everyone about the sacrifice. Worst trade ever by Edmonton imho.
I better understand that signing by Chiareli now from a few people in the know. One does piecework scouting for Vegas and he's a hardcore Oilers fan. He hated the Neal trade from day 1 and always reverted back to the Oilers not being mentally tough enough because all of the idiot fans ran Lucic out of town.
So getting younger is a great plan. Lucic at 1mil to assist may have been an exceptional call.