Larsson/Girgensons Contracts

[inkman]

2 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

There will be 4th liners available for the kind of money they earn now better than that. Grab some guy off Boston or St. Louis or some other deep team with tenacious extras. You just can't pay stars big money and pay for 3rd/4th liners as well. It's simply a reality of the cap era. Ideally, we get good again and then decent veterans will consider signing cheap for that chance to be on a cup winner. That's a luxury good teams get. 

Yeah. Read my earlier comments. Since when is $2.5 Mill "paying someone" in the NHL. That's bottom six money all day. 

[PerreaultForever]

1 hour ago, inkman said:

Yeah. Read my earlier comments. Since when is $2.5 Mill "paying someone" in the NHL. That's bottom six money all day. 

Bottom 6 maybe but bottom 12 has to be lower and often is. Boston, for example, pays Wagner and Kuraly around 1.2 million each and they play similar roles to Larsson and Girgs. If your top 6 is really good, you have little choice but to go low at the bottom. 

The solution, of course, is lots of intro contracts. Cozens, Asplund, Borgen maybe. If you get enough young guys on the roster you might have some money to burn - for a while.