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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 21 November 2023 14:43 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 21 November 2023 14:20 |
This is a case of two wrongs making a wrong. Signing that players coming off that injury at that price using next year's money was a mistake... an obvious mistake. Keeping him on the roster, irrespective of his bonus status, is probably also a mistake because he's just not playing at an NHL level right now. I concede he could play better at some point this year.
I would agree that keeping him on to get his bonus is the right move if the Oilers were either a Stanley Cup threat this year or it would not hamper them next year AND if they were able to attract free agents now without having to overpay. But since they have to overpay and that Stanley Cup window is fast closing, they should have made the grown up decision to cut their loses. Sunk cost be damned.
Should the wheels truly fall off and they do miss the playoffs, I expect they'll cut salary at the end of the year to get his bonus under the cap.
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I am not for 1 second saying the signing wasn't a big risk. It was and so far, it's not looking too good which is a problem. Now there is still time for him to turn around but right now, it's looking bad.
However, no NHL team is going to screw a guy out of money they agreed too pay him. It's not a bonus, it's part of his salary. If it was a bonus that he had to earn for good play, then you tie it like I said to goals or points or at least make him play most of a season. I don't know what it says in the CBA but it wouldn't shock me if the 10 games he had to play to make his money was the absolute min the CBA would allow. Maybe someone can confirm that for me. Either way, the made the ability to attain that bonus so incredibly easy, it was intended to be paid as part of his salary, it just doesn't count against this years cap. It was a way to legally circumvent this years cap.
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We've seen players feel they got a raw deal from their teams before - many times. It generally isn't an issue for future players, because no one expects to underperform to the point where they're going to put themselves in that position. Lamoriello has always been cold as ice around this stuff - he forced Mogilny and McGillis in to the minors in the first year of the cap. When the league changed the rules so you couldn't just bury contracts, he instead pioneered the LTIR exemptions, telling Lupul that he was damaged beyond repair and he should go away. Somehow, he's still managed to get players in every stop he's in. And that's despite making them sign for below what the PA has expected players to sign for on multiple occasions - he tends to avoid paying rookie bonuses for example, because the rookies have limited bargaining power with him.
No one expects to suck so completely that you end up buried like Campbell, or like Brown should have been. So it won't impact our ability to sign future deals.
And as for players don't care about winning, just money!?! I can't even...
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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