I can see a 5th yr too, but no way will it be at $7M. And yeah goalies can just randomly start to suck, long term goalie contracts especially for goalies in their late 20’s are going to become more rare imo. It’s one thing to give a 23 yr old goalie a 5 or 6 yr deal.

No he doesn’t. He played 4 games this year not meeting the 40 game requirement and he has 63 games the last 2 years not meeting the 70 game requirement. There is nothing in the article you sent a link to about prorating the games.

I can see a 5th yr too, but no way will it be at $7M. And yeah goalies can just randomly start to suck, long term goalie contracts especially for goalies in their late 20’s are going to become more rare imo. It’s one thing to give a 23 yr old goalie a 5 or 6 yr deal.

@coga16 has Graves covered and is right. The Avs aren’t signing Montour. The top 4 next season is already set with Byram who was playing exceptionally before getting cheap shot by Kolesar (oh how VGK fans have selective memories). In addition Montour isn’t the type of dman they would look at if they lost Graves in XD. Also if they lost Graves AND moved on from Compher there is no way they aren’t bringing Saad back. Also the Grubauer contract seems to be either to long by a year or to much $ (I think the Avs real breaking pt with Grubauer is term a 5yr deal takes him to almost 35 and I don’t think they have any interest in having that). You’ve done a creative ACGM but there are a lot of moves that aren’t necessary when just bringing back existing players will do.

I think Saad would want more term and money then the Avs would be willing to give him. But I agree he would be the better fit. Montour has risk but personally i think he'd fit the avs system of mobile defence and is a RHD, he's not a Graves replica at all. I was thinking Gru for 6mx5 at first but figured he would sign 7m for sure (used Binginton as a comparable, but think Gru is better and will get more AAV).

I tend to think Saad, having expressed an interest in playing in Colorado, might take a reasonable deal rather than max out in a place like, say, Edomonton.

If we can sign him to a deal between toffoli and Eberles then for sure but if he want's the 6M he's making now I can't see it working.

Yeah, no way he comes in at $7M but I could see $5.25x5 as a possibility. Goalies are super tough to sign to long-term deals, for sure, even the young ones (hi there, Carter Hart).

I think Saad would want more term and money then the Avs would be willing to give him. But I agree he would be the better fit. Montour has risk but personally i think he'd fit the avs system of mobile defence and is a RHD, he's not a Graves replica at all. I was thinking Gru for 6mx5 at first but figured he would sign 7m for sure (used Binginton as a comparable, but think Gru is better and will get more AAV).

I think $5.25 is super optimistic. Binnington and Markstrom are what his agents are going to point to and it isn’t unfair.