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You prove my point. Kempe has shown steady progress each year including 35 goals in a contract year and gets less than Boeser who has shown steady regression from a peak lower than Kempe's breakout year. Canucks pay for a hope that Boeser will reach new highs, Kings pay for much less than he just showed in the most recent year.

Oh look, a 35 goal scorer, age 25 just signed for 4 years at $5.5m per in LA. Imagine that! Almost like other teams can sign actual 30+ goal scorers way cheaper than Van seems to be able to for potential 30 goal scorers!

(1. I did acknowledge what Brock has been dealing with. (2. My entire point is that players should be paid for their production. NOT their "Maybe, sorta, kinda, could be, might be" production. (3. He likely would not get $7m anywhere in the league and if he accepts that QO he risks having another off year, tanking his own stock, and never being paid highly again. Taking $6.65m x 3 is a win for him, especially if he doesn't increase his production at all. Once again, no player should be paid based off hype, they should be paid based on factual productivity numbers.

@aGENT A neutral website has this contract as an over payment. I am not a troll for suggesting that this contract therefore harms the team's chances of making the playoffs. All that matters in this modern NHL is value per cap hit dollar. That's it. If one team gets more value from their cap, they will make the playoffs. If another team gets less value from their cap, they will miss the playoffs. It's that simple. Every contract over payment puts us on the losing side of that divide.

Just exactly how much is "RFA" years worth if the player in question demands a higher cap hit than he is actually worth? As in, his presence on the team at his demanded cap hit HURTS the team's chances of making the playoffs.

Not only that, but over 1/3rd of the contract consisted of "signing bonus" which means it gets paid entirely in that state immediately. In other words, only a fraction of a fraction of his contract got exposed to taxation while playing out-of-state. They really know how to use every trick in the book to keep cap hits down, Vancouver seems completely incapable of competing on this front.

Again, you don't pay people based on "well, it's your third contract, here have some money". You pay them based on their production. Point had production off the scale and still accepted a massively team friendly cap hit. Boeser has yet to hit those highs and is being paid handsomely anyway! This contract, this team is directly competing against other team's value-per-cap-hit, and as another poster has mentioned, CapFriendly places this contract as an overpayment, in other words, it's putting the team below average value for this cap expense, thus damaging the team's chances of making the playoffs.

Brayden Point scored 41 goals and 51 assists in 18/19 and proceeded to sign for 3 years at $6.75m, he was 23 years old at the time, but I'm sure this is way too many years ago to be viewed as relevant.

Please examine Bryan Rust's point totals. Then realize he signed for $5.125m!!! Now, sure, he is older and got more term, but the fact remains that (by your metrics) a reliable 30 goal scorer signed in Pit for barely above $5m. Yet here we are, signing a player who puts up LOWER points per game and handing out WAY more salary. It's madness.

He has had injuries in basically every single season. When you are allocating cap space, you need to take into account a player's total contribution to your team. If he misses significant games, your team still plays and thus his absence hurts the team's chance of making the playoffs. His salary hit should reflect his total production, regardless of games missed, and I do acknowledge the team gets the cap space back while he is injured, but it's not exactly easy to just slot another 30 goal scorer in while Boeser is on the shelf. Again, pay players based on their production, not what "could have been" their production or "what might be" their production. What IS their production. Otherwise you will constantly be overpaying and underperforming.

In no universe does a player who has never cracked 30 goals, never cracked 60 points, and has a career points per game of 0.79 while being average defensively, deserve more than $6.5m in today's cap. Yet another example of an over payment on a hope and a prayer that suddenly his production skyrockets to fit his salary, rather than simply paying him based on his performance so far. My most deepest sympathies for what Brock has gone through personally, but when it comes to business, this salary is unjustifiable.

After Bryan Rust just signed for $5.125m per, Boeser better not get more than $5m per. I realize Rust is older, but his past 3 seasons have all been around point per game while Boeser's production has really fallen off. Championship teams have players willing to take a pay cut to compete. Either Boeser accepts less, or I say move on from him.

I personally would give Miller a 10/10 because he put up 99 points on a cap hit of $5.25m. Every single player in the league who put up more points had a higher cap hit than him. The only one I would give an edge to would be Huberdeau at 115 points on $5.9m, so you could nitpick that Miller deserves 9.9/10 but that's about all. Look at the rest of the high point scorers, Matthews, 106 points ,$11.6m Tkachuk 104 points $7m, Kaprizov 108 points, $9m, etc. The case is there to say Miller was the single best contract value for point production in the league this year.

I really think people need to go look at the contracts signed by the top teams in the league right now. Take Carolina for example. Teuvo Teravainen put up 64 points in 82 games, and then was part way through a season where he put up 76 points in 82 games and he signed for $5.4M a year for 5 years which will end when he is 30 years old. Boeser is coming off a year where he had 46 points in 71 games. Also, if you observe the two players, Teravainen gets the edge in the defensive category. This is to say, Teravainen is the superior player. If anything, Boeser requires a pay cut if this team is serious about becoming a winner, since it is teams with contracts like Teravainen who they will be competing with. If Boeser receives anything over $6M a year, he will be harming the team's chances of winning unless he steps up his play significantly from what he has shown so far. Other examples would be Sam Reinhart (pretty comparable to Boeser but signed $6.5M and then put up 82 points in 78 games), Sam Bennett (went to Florida and put up 20 points in 15 games, signed for $4.4M and has put up 49 points in 71 games), and Andre Burakovsky (put up 45 points in 58 games and then 17 points in 15 playoff games and was signed for 2 years at $4.9M a year.) TL;DR: Boeser needs to sign for less than $6M, or sign for more and magically increase his scoring by 50%

I simply cannot agree that OEL gets an 8 out of 10 considering his cap hit is $7.26M. The question I would have is, since we have a limited amount of cap space, and we are spending to the cap, and we missed the playoffs, where is it in our cap that is holding us back from being a playoff team? In other words, where would we need an improvement in value from our cap expenditure to make it over the hump? In my opinion, the first contract that fits the bill is OEL. He simply does not provide over $7m of value to this team. If he was a $5m cap hit, sure, but considering this team is already at a disadvantage due to having higher income tax (and therefore less of our cap spending ends up in players' pockets compared to other teams like Dallas and the Florida teams which have 0% state income tax), the team cannot afford to be overpaying players by several million for what they bring to the team.

It must be nice to be in a location where you can sign superstars to team friendly contracts and be able to be a playoff team after a first overall bust AND a second overall bust PLUS a 9th overall bust and a 7th overall bust.

This league really does give us daily reminders that their product is steaming garbage and you have to hold your nose to enjoy some hockey

Or the director of hockey operations has a son on the other team leading to the longest suspension in Stanley Cup finals history for us while their player gets away with breaking someone's back no where near the puck.

The fact that the league approved his contract, and then, years later, decided to retroactively apply a penalty is beyond ludicrous. They claimed they wanted to punish cap circumvention, but then allow Tampa to openly abuse the LTIR to win cups. It's just an outright farce. The league is in serious trouble from an integrity stand point, AND they just signed partnerships with sports betting organizations, AND we have hot mic evidence that referees step on to the ice intending to call penalties on certain teams regardless of whether a penalty occurs. It's crystal clear at this point that the league is just a circus. I've long since actively avoided spending a single penny on this corrupt, disgusting product, and I encourage others to as well.

Jake Guentzel is a 40 goal scorer, over a point per game player, and he is on a $6m contract. If we want to be a winning team, Boeser gets $4m - $5m MAX. To win, you have to maximize your cap space, not hand out over priced contracts to inconsistent players.

So they miss a Dallas elbow to Miller's face yet find a phantom hooking call on Boeser? This league is beyond a joke.

It's sad how predictable it is

This game has been an example of why the NHL doesn't deserve to be one of the top sports leagues in the world. Just absolutely embarrassing rule enforcement.

The ref called that only after the crowd booed. Embarrassing officiating.

This is irrefutable at this point seeing as we have direct audio evidence of a veteran referee stating he stepped onto the ice wanting to give a certain team a powerplay. This league is an absolute circus and it's so blatant.