Quoting: Marino4Norris
Murray is coming off a .899SV% season, he won't make that kind of money on a long term deal or from arbitration, and again there's no incentive for the Pens to let him get to arbitration. And since when is trading fair value for a goalie doing a team with said goalie a favor? Some mental gymnastics to think that Murray isn't as good of an option for those teams as others AND that he'll make 7+ (which five goalies in the entire league make). So he's not a great goalie, but he should get paid like a top five one ??
Let's break this down...
There's no incentive for the Pens to let him go to arbitration.
Reply - This isn't how arbitration works. It's not a team ONLY choice. The players file 99.9% of the time because they have nothing to lose by filing. If they don't file, THEN they lost leverage.
And since when is trading fair value for a goalie doing a team with said goalie a favor?
Reply - It's a favor when it's NOT your best option. Getting Lehner without losing Assets is better. It's ECON 101...supply/demand. It's why Lehner was forced into a 1 year deal last year. No one wanted a goalie.
but he should get paid like a top five one ??
Reply $7M would make him the 8th highest paid and Yes, 2 cups is a HUGE accomplishment. As a Hawks fan, I'm against the trade NOT because he's terrible. He's pretty dang good. Crows better and we keep our assets. I'm against the trade because it completely F's our entire cap situation. We don't have the cap space for him and we're in a better position than half the league.
Can Murray get traded...he sure can, but remember the last time PIT fans were ADAMANT their goalie was going to get them a 1st rounder in the market....but then found out that due to cap reasons instead of getting a 1st rounder...they actually needed to lose a 2nd rounder just to shed that goalie??? Yeah that was MAF to Vegas. That's what cap problems do.