1.) The Markov contract is literally the same contract he signed in 2011. 3 years @ $5.75 per for a 32 year old isn't too bad. The same contract for a 35 year old with bad knees is, frankly, it's idiotic. If he's worth ~$6 million per year, then how can anybody say Subban isn't worth like $8.5 million+? Plus now all the other FA defensemen(Boyle, Niskanen, Stralman, etc) can justify why someone should overpay them.In slow days in hockey...
1.) habs resign markov for THREE years (damn)...not sure what this means in regards to P.K. Subban and his restricted free agency
2.) hartnell traded to cbj for umberger and draft pick...no comment
3.) still no news on kesler / spezza / thornton trade locations (minus the no trade teams thornton and spezza submitted), kind of a big deal because good offensive centers changing teams always significantly changes team dynamics
thoughts?
2.) Lol was there any point in this trade? They're both wingers(Umberger played center at some point in his NHL time I think...) both making about the same money (Hartsy: $4.85 million vs R.J.: $4.7 million). Only thought is umberger's contract ends in 2017 while Hartnell's ends in 2019. 4th round pick is essentially irrelevant. Total wash, maybe 51/49 in favor of CBJ.
3.) Kesler is apparently only willing to go to Pittsburgh, Chicago, or Anaheim, so there's that. Thing with centers is they tend to either work out great (Carter in LA, Briere in Philly initially) or are just really shitty (Gomez, Drury, Richards in NY, Richards in LA(argueable), Carter in CBJ)
Predictions for those 3 are as follows:
Kesler: Pittsburgh
Spezza: Anaheim
Thornton: San Jose
What's everyones thoughts on the somewhat barren free agent pool come July 1? Notable UFA fowards include:
Vanek(MTL), Moulson(MIN),
UFA defenseman:
Boyle(SJ), Niskanen(PIT), Stralman(NYR), Orpik(PIT), Meszaros(BOS), and alot of other
Goalies are basically Miller(STL), Hiller(ANA), Brodeur(NJ), and Bryzgalov(MIN).
What does anybody think?
Edit: Will be updating this if players resign.
Callahan: 6 years @ $5.8 million per year. 4 years of NTC
Gaborik: 7 years @ ~$4.8 million per year.
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