bustaheims
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I genuinely thought he was coming back for one last season. Big blow to the Bruins. If Krejci does the same, they'll be taking quite the hit.
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Nik said:Hated him as a Bruin but always liked having him on Team Canada. Just a good at everything player.
CarltonTheBear said:Not sure I have a specific point here. I guess it's just that winning is hard. Even a team that generally consistently had great rosters and goaltending and coaching and their best players on below market rates didn't get enough bounces to go their way over the course of 9 seasons to win a Cup, and they only got close once.
CarltonTheBear said:I think it's somewhat interesting to point out that despite the Bruins being one of the poster boys for the whole "stars need to take less if you want to win" mentality, they didn't really win all that much with that.
They had Bergeron on his deal at $6.875mil for 8 seasons starting in 14/15, and then $5mil last season. They also of course had Marchand and Pastra on great below market rates for a big chunk of that time too. In those 9 seasons they had 0 cups, went past the 2nd round just once, 6 total playoff series victories, lost in the 1st round 3 times, and missed the playoffs twice.
Not sure I have a specific point here. I guess it's just that winning is hard. Even a team that generally consistently had great rosters and goaltending and coaching and their best players on below market rates didn't get enough bounces to go their way over the course of 9 seasons to win a Cup, and they only got close once.
Bill_Berg_is_less_sad said:Bender said:Will be really odd seeing Tarasenko in a Sens jersey.
It's odd seeing anyone choose to play for an organization that has a giant zero for a logo and a GM who most proud of the fact that they are indeed a team.
herman said:The bad faith request still needs to be backed with statistical arguments, or else it'd be ignored. Like Terry's agent trying to demonstrate he has a reasonable comparable in Mitch Marner's 10+M would be laughed out and the arbitrator would really only hear the team side.
I think the arbitrator usually splits the ask because both sides have decent arguments for their interpretations of the results. Terry posted 37 goals in 75 games in 2021-22 (40+G pace, 16% of his team's total goal output), so I'm expecting that to be carrying a lot of the load in the 8M ask.
herman said:https://twitter.com/capitals/status/1687470742705709056
Bender said:herman said:https://twitter.com/capitals/status/1687470742705709056
Good player, but do we really think he's worth $6.5?