Rejoint: juill. 2021
Messages: 1,038
Mentions "j'aime": 541
At the time of the trade, I was happy as a Carolina fan because I’d always liked Niederreiter, but I thought it was a reasonable trade for both teams. Both players were on what looked like bad contracts at the time – neither one was playing up to the level of his cap hit – and they both had the same term remaining, but I figured they were both overpaid by about the same amount, so even though Niederreiter was the better player, Minnesota benefited by reducing the amount of cap hit they had invested in a bad contract. Cutting their losses, in effect. As it turned out, Niederreiter benefited from the change of scenery and made his contract look good, while Rask didn’t. Rask turned out to be one of those players who got a big contract based on one good season and, despite his youth, was never able to get back to that level.