[Speculation] Shesterkin deal incoming?

[Coconuts]

Weekes gets the odd scoop, guess we'll see

 

 

[Jess]

He's probably worth like $13M or something tbh. $11.5M would be a good deal for the Rags.

[Bob Long]

That's a lot for any goalie. Wow.

[Bell]

22 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

That's a lot for any goalie. Wow.

I thought that as well but on reddit they are saying it's a 500k discount.  The wear and tear on goalies that last few years of that deal are going to be ugly

[Lemon Face]

51 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

That's a lot for any goalie. Wow.

NBA players having 40 mill a season contract now.NHL will follow sooner or later.

[Alflives]

Raggedy Andy’s suck picks without this guy saving them every game. He’s by far their best player. He allows guys like Panarin and Fox to cheat the game. He should get 15 million considering how much cheating for offence his teammates do. 

[Drive-By Body Pierce]

I dunno about the length of the deal. How many goaltenders have maintained top of the league play for that period of time?

[Bob Long]

12 minutes ago, Lemon Face said:

NBA players having 40 mill a season contract now.NHL will follow sooner or later.

 

Crazy. Basketball is so boring.

[Lemon Face]

2 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

 

Crazy. Basketball is so boring.

There is no more Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant.New kids suck as hell and in the process making shit load of money

[Chickenspear]

5 minutes ago, Bob Long said:

 

Crazy. Basketball is so boring.

Fun to play, boring to watch. Like every other sport not named hockey.

[Nucker67]

$11.5 to play 50 games?  Salaries are getting crazy. 

[GrammaInTheTub]

Basketball was like football for gramma - so much more strategy involved and less chaos in each play - unlike hockey. It’s like chess. Gramma likes chess too.

[Smashian Kassian]

Whats the highest now? Price is at like 10.25 right? And Bob at 10?

 

Those deals were signed awhile ago, 11.5 wouldn't be as big a jump as it could be given the rising cap. Would be a good deal for both.

[gwarrior]

1 hour ago, Bob Long said:

 

Crazy. Basketball is so boring.

Yeah it is. And the constant shoe squeeking is annoying as hell.

[Bob Long]

2 minutes ago, gwarrior said:

And the constant shoe squeeking is annoying as hell.

 

Didn't even think of that. 

[gwarrior]

1 minute ago, Bob Long said:

 

Didn't even think of that. 

That's all I hear if I come across basketball hilights

[Coconuts]

2 hours ago, Bob Long said:

That's a lot for any goalie. Wow.

 

23 minutes ago, Smashian Kassian said:

Whats the highest now? Price is at like 10.25 right? And Bob at 10?

 

Those deals were signed awhile ago, 11.5 wouldn't be as big a jump as it could be given the rising cap. Would be a good deal for both.

 

He'd get more via UFA too, someone would throw 12 at him 

 

Goaltenders getting a bump is long overdue considering how the cost of top tier forwards and D has gone up

[Coconuts]

1 hour ago, Drive-By Body Pierce said:

I dunno about the length of the deal. How many goaltenders have maintained top of the league play for that period of time?

 

Hard to say, don't top tier tenders tend to age better? 

 

Rags don't contend any time soon without him, not sure they compete without him either even though he got ventilated tonight

[rmok]

If I'm spending 12m on goaltending i'd honestly rather have 2 good 6 million goalies on 3,4 or 5 year deals than any 1 goalie @ 12 for 7 or 8 years. 
 

Unless the goalie was so good that he earned that contract at like 23 years old somehow.. there is no way a veteran goalie is living up to that contract. 

[JeremyCuddles]

2 hours ago, Lemon Face said:

NBA players having 40 mill a season contract now.NHL will follow sooner or later.

Going to be way later at this rate, unless they start doing better in regards to tv coverage. It's a huge issue right now. Pretty sure the WNBA is pushing better numbers right now, and they were a joke prior to Caitlin Clark. Also, NHL rosters are twice the size of NBA rosters. Not sure how much that'd effect individual player contracts, but I reckon it has some effect. But then again NFL rosters are even BIGGER than NHL and you have QBs makin' 60mil who aren't even considered great.

Edited November 8 by JeremyCuddles

[Drive-By Body Pierce]

28 minutes ago, Coconuts said:

 

Hard to say, don't top tier tenders tend to age better? 

 

Rags don't contend any time soon without him, not sure they compete without him either even though he got ventilated tonight

 

It's their lack of high end options that gets him paid, which I guess is what ultimately sets a market price...

 

Delayed inflation is about to hit the goaltender market.

[GrammaInTheTub]

54 minutes ago, gwarrior said:

That's all I hear if I come across basketball hilights

Gramma could only imagine if we had the ice mic’d up back when t-blades were hot ticket

[qwijjibo]

2 hours ago, Lemon Face said:

NBA players having 40 mill a season contract now.NHL will follow sooner or later.

The broadcast rights for the NBA are FAR more lucrative. NHL isn't the same draw. There's zero chance NHL salaries get anywhere near those levels 

[R3aL]

Goal tending is such a difficult high pressure position and guys get nickel and dimed.

 

i truly feel there should be a seperate salary cap allocation for goal tending where you can have three goalie slots

 

1 starter

2 back up

3 practice goalie

 

and a special provision to exceed the goalie cap for a special goalie like a shesterikin and that overage would go into the teams regular salary cap.

 

my opinion. But goalies are for the most part not paid fairly imo.
 

the amount of minutes, the pressure and the importance of the position. 

kevin lankinen situation really shouldn’t happen. 

[Jess]

Shesterkin is a special breed of goaltender that does all of the following:

 

1. Plays really damn well

2. Plays damn well even with heavier workloads (55+ games and 100% playoff time)

3. Plays damn well every single season

 

These goalies are really rare and there generally seem to only be 3-5 in the NHL at any given time. When you find one, sign them.