mr grieves said:
Nik the Trik said:
princedpw said:
I am reduced to hoping for this. If the cap goes back to $70 million next year and $80 million a few years after that, I'll be ok.
Or you could hope that Clarkson plays really well and is worth the cap hit.
Sure. But more likely it'll go like this: those who liked Grabbo's production at $5.5m will love Clarkson's $5.25m.
He'll hit more people though.
And whenever I think of that as an inherent virtue, I find myself flashing back to Tucker laying out Sami Kapanen...
First off, I'm thrilled to have my health back to a point where I have the energy/enthusiasm to post on the internet again, because it's very fun discussing these things on here with you guys.
In his two seasons prior to this awful season, Grabbo was a high 20's goal scorer and high 50's point producer. Clarkson's offense is incredibly one dimensional, he can't pass worth a damn, only 46 points last year despite 30 goals, and only 9 assists this year.
Grabbo was also a terrific two way player, was in the top two on the team in Corsi three years in a row prior to his season, and in those three years he lead the team in +-, was third on the team in +- but second among forwards, and fifth on the team in +_ among players not counting a couple of call ups that played a few games. He also put up those numbers while often playing against the other teams top lines. Now those kind of stats don't always mean a lot, but when you are putting up those corsi numbers and +- numbers three years in a row it's clearly not a coincidence.