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Forum: NHL Signingsil y a 18 heures
Sujet: Ottawa Senators signed Joshua Norris (8 Years / $7,950,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>budgeteam</b></div><div>A bridge is a greater risk.

The Senators are not a cap team. His 7.95M cap hit is irrelevant until that changes.

His salary the first 3 years is 5, 6.5, 9.5. That is likely the same as what he would have gotten on a bridge deal (5.75 AAV if 2 years, 7M AAV if 3 years).

No signing bonuses, and he is under 26 for another 2 seasons. If he takes a huge step back, the Senators can buy him out and only pay a penalty of 1M per season.

Escrow is likely to be repaid by the time a bridge deal would end. The cap could be up to 90 million or higher by then. It might quickly approach 100 million. Because the cap is going to shoot up around the same time a bridge would be up, if they bridge him and he turns out to be even a solid 2C, they aren't getting him for much cheaper than an 8M AAV. Maybe they get him for 6.5 or 7 million if he is really unspectacular. If they bridge him and he delivers similar results to last year, he'll make them pay a lot more than 8 million under a rising cap. He will also have leverage to get signing bonuses and a NMC. That's a very important consideration.

At the end of the day, this is not a home run. It is not the Batherson contract. It is perfectly acceptable market value for a young star C. It is better than the alternative of bridging him, and risking that he delivers at a time when the cap is projected to go much higher.

This coming from someone who predicted that they bridge him.</div></div>
Well, here we are, 2 years later. Think they buy him out?
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 23 heures
Sujet: My Hopes for Next Year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ryminister_92</b></div><div>LOL… it’s still hilarious that you think Ceci is a top 4. He’s not.

There’s a reason why he was bought out in Ottawa. There’s a reason why Toronto didn’t offer him any kind of extension. You can try to justify it all you want, he still ain’t a top 4 defender.</div></div>
Four NHL teams and 7 NHL coaches over 8 seasons have ALL played him in their top-4. And they're ALL smarter than you and me.

The issue the past couple of years is that Edmonton was playing him on their top pairing - he was getting fed literally top-10 hardest minutes of any defenseman in the league. He's not suited to that. Now, however, they have him on the 2nd pairing (Ekholm - Bouchard is their 1st pairing) where he is doing just fine.

Every time you comment you show the world how small-minded and biased you are.

Have a great day.
Forum: Armchair-GMHier à 9 h 57
Sujet: My Hopes for Next Year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ryminister_92</b></div><div>LOL 🤣

Cause top 4 defenceman give the puck away like Ceci did to Laferriere in his own zone last night..</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>Yes, top-4 defensemen do make mistakes. Every single defenseman in the league has committed giveaways this season. Clearly your hockey knowledge is near zero.</div></div>

Interesting that you chose to pick on giveaways... among the top 128 regular season defensemen based on total minutes played (32 teams x 4) Ceci had the 6th lowest giveaways/60 rate. In the league.

What's that old saying? <em>Better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt. </em>
Forum: Armchair-GMHier à 13 h 28
Sujet: Ranking First Overall Picks 2014-2024
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GMDannyB</b></div><div>If we are going off of their career by the end of it? They are probably both right above Power. Slaf and Celebrini I believe will be better</div></div>
Dahlin is an elite 1st pairing defenseman, there's no way he should drop on this list. He plays against the best every night. Here's a simplistic view of the first 2 seasons post draft (to match Slafkovsky's career so far).

Hischier: 151, 37-62-99 +10 (0.66 P/GP)
Dahlin: 141, 13-71-84 -20 (0.60 P/GP)
Slavkovsky: 121, 24-36-60 -32 (0.50)
Power: 87, 6-32-38 +13 (0.44)
Hughes: 117, 18-34-52 -29 (0.44)

Honestly Power looks like the better pick right now too. Hughes had a pretty weak start to his career though so maybe Slafkovsky can become an 80-100 point guy, but I don't see the elite skill that Hughes has.