Quoting: Knuckl3s
OEL is easily worth 5 million minimum. The metrics back that up. Canucks media also says the same
Quoting: Isles5513
The real issue here is that being worth “much more” than Zadarov would put him around 5 million…. And I don’t think he’s in that category tbh.
Having Fun Guys! Good Convo, hope you don't mind me adding my 2 cents!
OEL is probably still decent, but had a bit of a down year offensively, which I would attribute to being his first season as a Canuck, it taking time to familiarize himself with his line mates and D-Partner and the fact he's no longer the #1 PP D-Man. Myers likely was a victim of that reality being his D-Partner as well, putting up less than stellar offensive numbers, but Defensively he was solid at Even Strength +15 and his size gives him distinct advantages. Neither are too old yet, they simply didn't live up to their contracts expectations.
Hard to find Top-Pairing Veteran D-Men for under $5mil/yr, so they're worth that in my eyes. Hopefully they do much better this year, after bringing in better defensive forwards in Lazar & Mikheyev and hopefully Dickinson does better in his 2nd Season with the Canucks as well. Boeser just wasn't there last year, given the health of his dad, so I'm counting on him rebounding big time this year as well