Blob Mckenzie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 10:24 pm
Hilarious reading the knuckle draggers whining and crying about "scooter boy" and "11.6" ..... No sure if these inbred know that that an 80 point two way Centre is around 9 million a year in todays CAP LEAGUE. So he is 2 and a half million overpaid in the FIRST YEAR of his deal while mostly dragging around shitty linemates other than Debrusk for a dozen games. 'But he's skinny and he falls down some times'.... he doesn't have the snap in his skating due to a wonky knee. Where was the outrage paying OEL 8 million, Air Theif 6 million, Birdbones 4.4 million, Beagle 3 million, Gudbranson 4 million, Myers 6 million, Roussel 3 million, Schaller 3 million, Sbisa 3 million. These guys were overpaid a couple hundred percent each, yet not a peep. The goalie they had to buy out with the snakes.... the CAP is a thing. So Peter is into his new deal 28 games in after he far outperformed his previous contracts and he gets zero slack. Zero... zilch.... nada.
Keep in mind the scooter gang keeps rapping on about 11.6. Within a year or two his contract will be comparable to an 8 million dollar deal singing 2021 as far as % of the cap. I had to educate a couple folks that Hischier's contract was a solid one a couple years ago. Then there were some turnip truck dudes that said Nuge's contract was bad. Too bad that three or four years of posts got guillotined.
I agree with your comments on Pettersson, not so much on Beagle and the others...
The only concern I have with any player signing their legacy contract is will the desire be as strong after the contract is signed as it was when the player was searching for the big contract?
Use to say that I'd take a team of lessor players in search of the big contract over better players who have signed the big contract because what is lacking in skill level is made up in determination and drive...
Gotta say that I was a little p*ssed at Demko's comments after the Bruins game where he seemed non chalant about the effort and wanted to put it on the media...
Was at the game sitting beside a group of guys who got to the game just as the puck was dropped...
They are from the Island and due to the windstorms were waiting at the ferry terminal most of the day hoping to be able to catch a ferry to Vancouver....
In the end the only way they could get on was as foot passengers so they left their car at the terminal on the Island and when they got to Tsawwssen they took a tax to the game which cost them $$$$....
I'm not a drinker but they said the cost of the drinks they were drinking were $15 each and of course after the game they had hotels to pay not to mention the price of the tickets...
All that for a no show?
Thatcher, its not the media its the paying fans....
Take care...
Carl.
