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Mike wrote on Tue, 25 June 2024 11:29 |
RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 25 June 2024 14:04 |
inverno76 wrote on Tue, 25 June 2024 10:38 |
kungpaobenji27 wrote on Tue, 25 June 2024 09:59 |
inverno76 wrote on Tue, 25 June 2024 10:42 | It won’t be the friendship that keeps Nurse in Edmonton. Eberle was just as beloved and it’s a business. Nurse will be back because he has NMC and an immovable contract.
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The prospective exit strategies with Nurse are:
1 - trading him to a bottom feeder desperate to reach the cap floor
2 - said bottom feeder retains some money while trading him to a contender asap or after some seasons rehabbing his game.
3 - hoping he can rehab his game in Edmonton with Broberg playing on his off side while increasing his value only to trade him later out of necessity.
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It’s time to work around his contract and just accept it’s there until he wants out.
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Exactly my point. Fans need to forget about the contract and get off his case about it. Carving him up in the media day after day doesn't do anything to make him play better. If anything, it probably makes it worse.
Go find him a partner (maybe it's Broberg) who compliments him, create a solid pairing and worry about the cap hit of the pairing and the overall results of that pairing vs the individual player cap hit. If the cap hit of the pairing is around 13 mill, and they give you good top 4 mins, what difference does the split make?
Just my opinion but I think some Oilers fans put way too much emphasis on optics. I think Pesce is probably the best free agent dman. Given he is right handed and how brutal the market is, I could see him getting north of 6 all day. If Nurse was paid 7.25 mill and then they went out and signed Pesce for 7 mill and you had a 14.25 mill pairing. I doubt people would bat an eye and would probably say that's a good pairing.
As an example. Broberg is up for a deal. He's barely played so what he makes on his next deal won't be much. His cap hit was 874K. So pretending you can get him signed for a couple of seasons at 2 mill max (I think it would be less). But if the combined cap hit of the Nurse paring is 11.25 mil and that pairing gives you good top 4 mins. At the end of the day, who cares about the split. Yes individually he makes too much but worry about the cost of the pairing and get him a partner that improves the pairing but offsets his cost.
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Cap hit aside, Nurse was brutal for most of the playoffs. The only other guy close was Ceci. Together they were abysmal. Let's never have them together again.
And as much as some fans like to ignore how much a player makes when making a case for said player, in a cap world it cannot be ignored. It's a crazy contract not just because of the cap hit, but the way it's structured - full NMC for another few years, and 100% buyout proof. Well done Nurse's agent.
For his sake, I hope we was injured and it contributed to his less than stellar play.
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I agree. He didn't have a good playoff and his contract isn't very good. He's overpaid. To get rid of that contract will be very difficult.
To do it, he would have to waive his NMC which I doubt he would to go to a bottom feeder team that could afford him. Put yourself in his shoes. He gets paid his money whether he is here or somewhere else. He's got the support of the best player in the world plus arguably another top 5 player saying to everyone he's great. He's not an awful player, he just makes a little too much money. So if you were him, why would you waive your NMC to go play for a crappy team when you can stay here, play with your besties and be on a good team?
If I was him, I sure wouldn't. I get being called out isn't fun but who cares. I got McD telling everyone how great I am. In the mind of a player, who knows better, the best player player on the planet or loud mouthed fans? I am not taking a shot at anyone, but if I was in Nurses shoes, would I give a crap about what the average fan who maybe at best plays beer league, says about my game? Hell no.
So the question I have if what does fans constantly bringing up his contract over and over again do for his game? Fans screaming about him saying he's overpaid and sucks. That does what to improve him?
So they have to find a work around. Get a guy that isn't Ceci he can play with who compliments the holes in his game.
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