Quoting: LuckyMoneyPuck
you are just hell bent on bad points. Do you really think anyone needs to jump through hoops to get a young military age male out of Russia right now?
Are you kidding me? You realize they have been bolting for the door for some time now. Those who can get out.....wisely do. Hell there are pictures all over the internet of them flocked to Dubai, Indonesia, Georgia...etc. So yeah it's pretty odd to give a guy who's never played in the NHL that much. Or claim doing so helps bring another guy, who you admit tried to dodge military service over.
I have no doubt that guy wants to bolt the hell out of there.
I also think you are the one kidding yourself if you think in Russia, you need to hand that money over to someone to "help" you in any kind of legitimate way. You don't need to bring another guy over to bribe someone in Russia.
Anyway, my view is still the same, they paid a lot of money for a guy with not one game of NHL experience. Who they could have left sit in russia at that point. If they really needed a goalie that bad, it's not like there were not options. The problem for the Flyers was that the front office didn't want to pursue those options which probably cost them a playoff spot this year. Just like NJ.
But lets not pretend there aren't options. Like people want to pay guys in the AHL 4.5 mil salaries when they are heading into a cap crunch.
I'm just being honest about the whole situation, you are trying to take a square peg and shove it into a round hole and think everyone else should look at it and say, oh yeah that's normal.
It's not.
Which is why the vote count up there is HUGE in the NO vote section.
It's you that aren't willing to recognize that.... not me.
Jump through hoops to get him over here? What are you even talking about? It’s well documented we tried to get him over here years ago and couldn’t. Not sure why you can’t admit that one?
But really in the end it’s actually not a lot of money! That’s your whole point and it’s literally nothing compared to what most teams are paying their goalies, Florida and Knight included! If we were in a cap crunch and really needed every last penny or were even legitimate playoff contenders then you can make an argument. But we’re far from that so the risk is next to nothing.
I mean if they do just want to give us Knight for pennies then trust me I’m all for it but I’m simply making the case that they won’t just give him away at this point, which is reasonable.
Your scenario? Not very reasonable actually to imagine one of the best run teams in the league to sell so low on a guy his age with that much upside.
We didn’t lose a playoff spot because of anything other than the Hart situation completely screwing us over. We were sellers at the deadline for a reason.
Either way I’m glad we’re picking at #12 instead of closer to 20. Good for the rebuild.
You are obviously very clueless about how Russia works. It’s all about money there, has been for a long time. Laughable you can’t admit that. I’m not saying it’s a huge factor or anything was just something to note that it doesn’t hurt hooking up the guy that’s going to help get Michkov over before his contract is up, which can be difficult in certain situations.
I don’t care there are a bunch of no votes, people love to hate on the Flyers. I love it. I also never claimed it was normal. This is one of the weirdest situations with a player from overseas I think I’ve ever seen before.