Scumbag Shesterkin rejects 8 y, 88 million offer.

Two things...he said "almost zero" and he even explicitly said "Bob last season was maybe the first" in his prior post.

 

You can win a cup with a high priced goalie if your GM isn't a moron by giving out NMC and NTC's to players. Especially veteran players. There should be an organizational policy. No NMC or NTC's from this point on. If you don't like it, request a trade and we will shop you. You have to keep working in young players with a high priced goalie.

 

Yes, IF you have a high-priced goalie you are really going to need your low-cost skaters (young players) to step up big or catch lightning in a bottle with some low priced vets.

As much as I like Shesterkin, this organization doesn't seem capable of putting together a cup winning roster with that much money tied up in net. Time will tell.

 

Kakko, Fox and Sheetzy for McDavid lmfao

 

Lmao. I actually wouldn’t do that

 

Thank you. And you are spot on Grey.

ANYTHING can happen, but here is fact of it, there is almost zero precedent of a team winning the Cup with a huge cap hit goalie. Here is also the fact of it, we have tried that and have not won the Cup.

And last I checked; we do not have a bunch of cheap stud kids in the minors to build around with a goalie taking up a ton of cap space (Lafreniere/Miller are due for big deals soon, so that ship of cheap contracts has sailed). We have some okay maybe middle 6, 2nd pair kids who may pan out to be decent players, but that's it. Way overpaying a goalie, when it is extremely rare a team wins a Cup following that blueprint, is not smart.

And writing we shouldn't sign guys with NTC's and NMC's is unfortunately nonsense in a league when just about every single very good to top player gets a clause in their contract, it is ALL over the league. Go have fun with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny if you think you can sign top guys without a clause.

I don't think it is a smart use of cap space to have a goalie making over $11M per season, let alone close to $12M. From there we'll see how it plays out.

 

Also read they may be working on an extension for Lafreniere, 8-years around $8M per. That seems like a really good deal to me at a good price, I hope they can get it done.

 

The Rangers have no cap space as it is, even with an increase there will not be enough money for Igor especially with other contracts to negotiate. Seems like backup goalies for the Rangers have done pretty well over the years. I'm skeptical that any team would throw $12 mil Igor's way, same shit happened with Hank when he got paid.

 

Happy with Shesterkin's asking price. No. However, this fucking team sucks dick without him in goal on his A game. Just watch the playoffs. The main problem is our dumb fuck GM's giving out moron NMC and NTC's which Dolan should never allow for any player going forward. If you rave about the way the organization treats players then you should not need those to play here. Plus, we are about to see the next wave of young players here. Mancini. Edstrom and Rempe on the 4th line. Crossing fingers with Rempe who I still think should be in the AHL for another year. Othmann, Perreault. Lab. Pay Lafreniere. Cuylle is here. Mac-Barker I think will be here sooner than later. Same with Rooebroeck. The reality is Trouba will be gone next year and Lafreniere will take his money. Lindgren probably will be signed by a desperate team like Chicago or San Jose for 5.5 to 6 million for 6 years. Smith is here for one year. Quick will be gone after this year. So that's 16.7 million gone after this year on the cap. Then the cap goes way up. They can afford Lafreniere and Shesterkin.

 

I've been reading that Igor wants to be the Rangers highest paid player, so he is looking at more than the $11.642M that Panarin makes as the benchmark. When this is all said and done, Igor will get his $12M per +/- and the Rangers will be a less complete and worse off team for it. But hey, Igor will get what he needs, so that's good for him. Squeezing that extra million out of the Rangers is life changing for him, and way more important than building a winning team or winning a Cup.

 

They will just have a hard time adding any FA of note next year, when they likely will need another guy to with Kreider and Z. Even with getting rid of Trouba and maybe KK it will be tight, plus Miller if he's still here will get a raise of some sort.

 

Next year we could see big changes