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| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 10 February 2020 11:55 |
| CrudeRemarks wrote on Mon, 10 February 2020 11:51 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 10 February 2020 11:40 |
| Rocksteady wrote on Mon, 10 February 2020 11:28 |
I'm fine it's a bridge deal.
I'm fine with the numbers!
I'm fine all around on Nurse getting this. I personally think he's not long for the Oilers and will finish the contract on another team, but we will see.
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When the contract is up, if Nurse wants to be an Oiler, it will be up to him. If he wants to chase the money, I don't think it's in Edmonton. I have said it already. I think he believes he can score more. I am sure if he was on another team and given the premium offensive minutes and #1 PP time, he can probably score a little more. I don't see a ton. But with Klef plus Bear and Bouchard, he won't score more.
So in 2 yrs he will have a choice. Go to most likely a crap team because they are the ones who can afford to overpay him or stay on the Oilers, make real good money but probably take a bit less BUT you get to play with his best buddies, be a god in the City and win.
Over the years, I don't think there have been very many players who have EVER taken less in Edmonton. I think back to "beloved" Smyth who apparently the Oilers shockingly drew a line in the sand and said this is our limit. I am sure that limit was MORE than fair given what Smyth was as a player and Smyth walked over apparently 100K a year. He never wanted to leave yet he was willing to walk over 100K. If you think about the last cup final team. Did any of the guys who stayed take a discount? Hell no. With Pronger forcing a trade, every last one of those guys who stayed, held a gun to the Oilers head and used Pronger leaving as leverage. I hope we start seeing a few guys try to take a little less to build something.
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My Smyth feelings are well documented but he didn't actually walk over $100k. He was traded by the greatest living manager in NHL history, Kevin Lowe. We know Lowe is very reasonable and a hard but fair negotiator but who is to say who is really to blame for the Smyth trade?
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I believe the story was they worked on a extension right up until the last few hours of the trade deadline. They couldn't agree to terms. It was down to 100k difference. Rather than potentially lose him for nothing, they traded him.
I am pretty positive on that. I heard Smyth talk about it was a mistake not to resign when he was on Gregor's show a few years ago. Maybe the amount I said wasn't right. I thought it was 100K but regardless, they were different by very little in the grand scheme of things. Both sides wouldn't budge and he was traded rather than lose him for nothing. I don't have a problem with a team setting a limit and not moving.
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So you don't know what he was offered or how much he already left on the table, but you're fully prepared to take the side of Kevin Lowe, arguably the worst GM in history. Don't forget that Smyth went to free agency and got a $6.25MM contract, so it's not like the market for him wasn't out there. The highest paid player the season before? Jagr at $8.36MM.
But it's ok, your boy Klowe was able to trade Smyth for the powerhouse Colin Fraser and a 7th round draft pick. With any other team, I might be worried but with how astutely aware Klowe and his cronies were with drafting, a 7th round pick is basically a 2nd round pick in their hands.
It boggles my mind that people still defend this. Lowe effed up literally every contract he ever touched, and then when it comes to one of the most respected players in the game, without knowing any of the details, they assume that Lowe made a "more than fair offer". Like Lowe's "more than fair offer" of Comrie having to pay back his $2.5MM bonus in order to get traded (it only cost the Oilers Corey Perry as he was poised to enter his prime). Or his "totally fair" decision to send Souray to the minors while icing defensive greats such as Jim Vandermeer and Kurtis Foster.
| CrusaderPi wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:17 |
| CrudeRemarks wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:00 |
The president thinks he has the ideal male body.
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It's hard to disagree that he has the ideal male body.
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