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| Mike wrote on Thu, 24 March 2022 08:33 |
| Skookum Jim wrote on Thu, 24 March 2022 02:12 |
That's exactly right. Its not the extra 1.5M Nurse gets.. its the 1.5M you don't have to keep good players and turn the team into a contender.
The problem is that salary is super high, and his game is too inconsistent, he makes way too many Grade A mistakes that loses games.. he's not elite defensively.. and not elite offensively..
He sold himself to the Oilers as an elite player, which deserved elite money.. but hasn't really played at an elite level.. IMO he deserves the criticism he gets.. He squeezed out every last dollar he could out of the Oilers. McDavid took a contract below his market value so he could win. Nurse did not.
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All that is compounded by a GM that doesn't know how to make the system work for him. Imagine if he would have gotten Chicago to retain 50% like almost everyone expected. And then instead of buying out James Neal, pay someone like the Coyotes or Senators a draft pick or two to take him. And back in 2019, that Sekera buyout was dumb. Send him somewhere with 50% retained, or keep him - we had some space IIRC. He was no longer a top pairing guy if he ever was, but the cost of the buyout plus the replacement made no sense.
So between what should have been retained for Keith ($2.7m) and the dead cap for Neal and Sekera ($3.5m), that's $6.2M. That gets you a decent player..
With Neal we have 3 more years of almost $2M wasted. Can't imagine paying a prospect and/or pick to have someone take him wouldn't have been better - the time is now. I'll take $2M in cap space for 4 years before a 2nd or 3rd round pick. If I was in a rebuild with cap room, sure I would take some assets to take your bloated contract off your hands.
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100% agree Mike.
It’s just bad deal after bad deal. Paying too much at the top is just as bad as paying too much at the bottom. Paying to have guys NOT play for you, yet being so ignorant in the fact that you can get teams to pay for guys to play for you. It’s inept management. It’s seemingly the Oiler way.
Also, I know I’m beating a dead horse here but just one more thing on the Nurse inflation. When Drai signed his current deal, everyone thought HOLY HECK(!!) but he was young enough to trade strides and make that deal an absolute bargain. I’d like someone to convince me Nurse can and will elevate his game to the level expected from his next contract.
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