Quoting: JSEB93
I gotcha - I thought you meant retool right now. My bad.
Idk though when I look at these other FA signings it seems pretty fair in terms of deals. I didn't a bunch of players get grossly overpaid or anything. In terms of what could have been done - he could have not signed Eller or Ned and bought out Granlund.
I don't think they were in on Bertuzzi either - but I do think they were probably looking at Bunting. And if they weren't, that's their fault and a bad move. 3mil to Engvall wasn't unbeatable. Neither was 3.5mil to Kerfoot. And you honestly believe that Zucker wouldn't have taken less to stay with the Pens as opposed to signing in Arizona? JVR isn't any older than Eller - he's also better and was cheaper. Would have given them over 8mil in cap space. I'd rather take a risk on a great player like Pac recovering than give that money to Eller or a third string goalie.
Wheeler at 850K is a steal lol. And we gave 2,5mil to a more cooked Eller - with term. I would've taken Yamomoto or Fischer at those prices for sure.
Was it really that rough though? And how rough would it have been if they didn't sign Eller, Ned and bought out Granlund?
Engvall got 7 years though... the penguins were not doing that, if they offered 3x3 and he's getting an offer of 7x3 by NYI i mean what can you do lol. You can't offer the same deal, that's terrible. Pretty sure isles fans are pissed they locked Mayfield and Engvall in at 7 years lol.
They claimed they were talking with Zucker, so i'm guessing he didn't want to take whatever they offered.
Wheeler is another one though that I think had his eyes set on specific teams, so sure 850K is a steal, but i'm not sure he's taking that same deal in Pittsburgh...
I may stand alone on the Bunting train, but I think his numbers were vastly over inflated given who he played with, and he would've been with Malkin, does he achieve anywhere close to those same #s?
And i agree that there were plenty of fair deals, but a lot of them where for players who simply resigned to their same teams (Fast, Jost, Glass, McLeod).
If you buy out Granlund and don't sign Ned or Eller you're around $6.5M in cap, but i'd drop that closer to $5 because they've yet to announce anything on DOC and Smith. You assume they sign DOC and he plays 3LW, Nieto/Acciari/Carter 4th line? Nylander or rust 3RW?
If you give Erod that deal do you really feel much better about the following bottom 6:
DOC/EROD/Nylander
Nieto/Acciari/Carter
Like maybe slightly better, but still not moving the needle.