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| Adam wrote on Tue, 12 April 2022 10:47 |
Always a chance a player takes that approach, but if you offered him, say 6 years at $4.5MM per, that's a pretty decent amount. He's significantly richer and it's guaranteed. If the alternative is a couple years at $2.5 and then hope to hit it out of the park...well, that's a risk. You could get hurt, you could have other players come in and challenge for your spot, you could get traded to a crappy team...
Where we've made some long-term bets on young players, it's generally been a really good decision. Klefbom was a bargain contract very quickly. Draisaitl, even with the overpay that summer based on comparables, is now a bargain deal.
I struggle with giving 30-year olds long deals, but a guy in his early 20s? I think it's worth the risk, and certainly, if you wait until he's almost UFA and usually coming off a massive year? That's when we are forced to pay through the nose (like with Nurse) or cut bait.
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6 years at $4.5MM would be great, for both sides. Honestly, I'd go up to 8 years & up to $5MM with Puljujarvi and be happy if they got it done for that. The only way you can get value contracts outside of the ELC is to make bets on young players, and every arrow, other than goals, is pointing up for him. Every player that he plays with performs better when Puljujarvi is on the ice.
Even with his recent scoring slump, his numbers still project to 18 goals over 82 games. That's decent production, and maybe not quite worth $5M on it's own, but it's not that far off. And when you factor in everything else that Pujujarvi does to help the team, I think he's worth that much today, nevermind what he'll be in 2 or 3 years if he keeps on his current trajectory. Or they can lowball him on a 2-year bridge, watch him score 30 goals next year + 10 in the playoffs, all while playing against the other team's top lines, and then pay him $7.5M+ on his next contract.
Nice to see Woodcroft shut down Spec's nonsense here: https://twitter.com/puljuoil/status/1514366963820105730?s=20 &t=AgVOg2MvNFzTnDI2mkVskg
[Updated on: Thu, 14 April 2022 13:22]
Oilers Goal Differential
17/18: 234 GF / 263 GA (-29)
18/19: 232 GF / 274 GA (-42)
19/20 (82 game pace): 257 GF / 254 GA (+3) in 64 games
2021 (82 game pace):269 GF / 235 GA (+34) after 38 games
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