Market Clutter Good or Bad for Kessel & the B's

by JonnyNYC on Jul 2, 2009 9:37 AM EDT

Lot of scoring signed up in day 1, here are some of the annual salaries:

Hossa to the hawks - $5m

Knuble to the caps - $2.75m (I think)

Cammarelli to the Habs - $6m

Gaborik to the Rangers - $7.5m

Havlat to the Wild - $5m

Cole resigned in Carolina - $2.5 & $3m

On one hand this indicates the market is not recessing as much as Chiarelli may have hoped relating to Kessel. Teams are still paying for goals at premium prices and some of these deals (Gaborik) are ludicrous.

On the other hand a lot of teams who need scoring are filling it quickly, meaning the number of teams who might be interested in Kessel is shrinking.

These two points coupled with Phil being a RFA, I'm once again not seeing Phil get a deal upwards of $5m/year.

I know the B's are going to wait for the market to get set for Phil and see what offers come in for him, I think from there they might be able to create an escalating contract that could work on both ends. something like a 3yr deal $3.75m, $4.25, $5m = 3yrs @ 13m.

Of course you might not even have to go that high for Kessel, pending what he's offered elsewhere, but I think that could work for both sides.

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Gionta got $5 mil and David Booth got $4.25 mil, so the market is a little higher than expect. But then again Hossa got $5.2 million a year after asking for as much as $9 million.

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by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Jul 2, 2009 10:30 AM EDT reply actions

I want Kessel to stay

He stil has some work to do to become more of a “complete” hockey player. I’m not going to pretend to know how these “talks” are going between The B’s and PK (or his agent), but I don’t see the outcome being great on the chances of PK playing in Boston this year. I believe he’s waited too long (or rejected too many offers from The B’s). The money isnt available anymore. It was if he were to accept the Krejci type deal that they offered. Which really, is a shame.

by j3rockstar on Jul 6, 2009 2:46 PM EDT reply actions

i’ll give you those cap hits on all the guys except hossa b/c it is the only LT Front Loaded contract

hossa’s cap hit may be $5.2m, but the hawks are coughing up a lot more cash than that. the 12yr – $63M is bascially going to turn out 7yr deal and then he will retire. so hossa is bascially going to get the $9m per year and the hawks get the cap hit discount using the DET Ken Holland approach. There was no way DET was going to give Hossa more $$$ under a LT front loaded contract than they gave to Zetterberg. He is a notch above Hossa any day of the week.

Goal scoring is something GMs always over-pay for. I don’t see why Phil would be looking for that $5m when Krejci signed for $3.75m. Phil should be happy with $4.25 and be done with it…

by hockeysully on Jul 6, 2009 5:07 PM EDT reply actions