https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvucjMP-dss
Cette vidéo contient une théorie intéressante. Quand vous regardez les contrats pour lesquels Yzerman a signé les joueurs de Tampa, il y a une tendance claire. Stamkos, Hedman, Kucherov, Vasilevskiy, Palat et Miller ont tous signé pour conclure des accords après l’expiration de leur ELC. Les quatre premiers ont ensuite obtenu leur contrat à long terme.
Évidemment, Yzerman a signé le gros contrat avec Larkin l’été dernier, mais il avait signé un accord de transition avec Holland. Je pense que beaucoup d’entre nous supposaient simplement que Mo et Raymond obtiendraient des contrats de 8 ans pour beaucoup d’argent cet été, mais c’est peut-être la raison pour laquelle Yzerman n’est pas non plus pressé de signer. Il voudra peut-être des accords à court terme, et cela sera plus difficile à négocier.
Qu’en pensez-vous tous ? Vont-ils obtenir des contrats de 8 ans et assumer la moitié du plafond restant, ou Yzerman répétera-t-il ses modèles passés et signera-t-il l’un ou les deux pour combler les accords qui limitent leur plafond immédiat ? Cela pourrait faire la différence entre intégrer ou non un UFA à prix élevé sur la liste cet été.
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doubeljack
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The bridge makes more sense if the cap is going to go up again. Agents and players want the most total dollars they can get, that will very much so help them do that
Ultimately it depends on what they want too. I think it’s in our best interest to get at least one of them signed to max term if possible (preferably Raymond) though.
The players want bridges so they can up their dollar amounts of their contract. The team wants term to save on the back end as the cap rises.
It depends on the player of course, but for me it makes more sense for the org to sign both to 8 year deals. Theyve both been in the league for 3 years. Won a Calder. Last season Seider played the toughest minutes in the league and Raymond had a great season and is only going to get better and better. Their cap hit now may be higher, but the last 3-4 years of these deals they may be great bargains especially if the cap keeps increasing and increasing.
I think the reality is that it’s going to be tough to get both of them at max length and value right now. If that means we get a bridge deal for one, perhaps. Would be really tough to see them both bridging but it could happen. Obviously not what the players want but we’ll see where things end up.
We’re either getting them slightly less than the theoretical maxes (say, 7.5/yr each instead of 8-8.5+) for team-friendly AAV and a max term, or someone’s going to bridge. It just seems so unlikely that we’ll be able to nail them both down otherwise given the other work we need to do with our roster in the off-season.
Ray and Mo and their agencies are not going to entertain a bridge, there’s hardly a scenario where this makes sense for either party tbh