The wild fell to 19th after coming in at 6th in last years rankings, largely due to poor values of Foligno, Trenin, Middleton, and Fleury’s contracts, and Gaudreau’s regression relative to his contract value.
The author also makes the point that we’ve already tied up a lot of the cap relief we were going to get next year on these veteran contracts, effectively opting for quantity over quality.
If a “C” is average, then we only have three stinker contracts. That seems okay?
Is their “model value” based purely on their point production?
That Foligno contract will haunt us for a while. Middleton is hardly any better.
I don’t under how Foligno is worse than Gaudreaus when Folingo defensive impact is way better than Gaudreau.
Marcus would’ve gotten 3.5 or even 4 mil easily on the open market its more term based than anything
I don’t hate the Trenin contract honestly he has solid possession stats and he’s a fast tenacious good forechecker who can PK. Which something the Wild didn’t have last year
I would be curious to see how this would change if Freddy can get back to a 40ish points per year like he did the two previous years.
Has anyone forwarded this to Billy yet? He should probably take a glance at this.
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Taken from their recent contact efficiency ranking article.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5646246/2024/07/25/nhl-contract-efficiency-rankings-2024/
The wild fell to 19th after coming in at 6th in last years rankings, largely due to poor values of Foligno, Trenin, Middleton, and Fleury’s contracts, and Gaudreau’s regression relative to his contract value.
The author also makes the point that we’ve already tied up a lot of the cap relief we were going to get next year on these veteran contracts, effectively opting for quantity over quality.
If a “C” is average, then we only have three stinker contracts. That seems okay?
Is their “model value” based purely on their point production?
That Foligno contract will haunt us for a while. Middleton is hardly any better.
I don’t under how Foligno is worse than Gaudreaus when Folingo defensive impact is way better than Gaudreau.
Marcus would’ve gotten 3.5 or even 4 mil easily on the open market its more term based than anything
I don’t hate the Trenin contract honestly he has solid possession stats and he’s a fast tenacious good forechecker who can PK. Which something the Wild didn’t have last year
I would be curious to see how this would change if Freddy can get back to a 40ish points per year like he did the two previous years.
Has anyone forwarded this to Billy yet? He should probably take a glance at this.