The Rangers traded his rights there a few days ago. Brian Campbell's replacement.
A big money deal, but he was arguably the best defenceman on the market. Now the top-two guys are both gone (him and Goligoski).
Keith Yandle signs with the Florida Panthers
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The Rangers traded his rights there a few days ago. Brian Campbell's replacement.
A big money deal, but he was arguably the best defenceman on the market. Now the top-two guys are both gone (him and Goligoski).
bustaheims
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He'll be 30 when the season starts, so, this practically locks him up for the rest of his career - or, at least, the rest of the time he's likely to come close to being worth this kind of money.
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herman said:
I'll be generous and say 2021.
I watched Yandle for a few years in AZ and I really don't get the hype?? He's a lot more Mike Green than he is Drew Doughty and I don't see him leading a winning charge. And for that money I expect a guy who can lift the team to higher places. I like the AZ signing of Goligoski much better.
Yeah I think they can get a solid 5 years out of this deal at least. Yandle's an ironman. He hasn't missed a game in 8 straight seasons, and actually played 84 games in 14/15 because of a trade.
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Bates said:
He's a solid 2/3, but, yeah, he's not a guy you want as your #1. Thankfully for Florida, he won't be.
Bates said:
Well his cap hit is in line with a UFA Mike Green so that does make sense. A UFA Drew Doughty gets $9mil+ easy.
The Doughty reference wasn't about money but play. If you take a watered down Doughty you have a decent second pairing D man. Yandle isn't that and as we saw last couple seasons the Rangers actually played him as little as possible 5v5 and held him for PP time. That isn't exactly a guy you want to commit to for 7 years starting at age 30.
Bates said:
He was 4th among defencemen in EV ice-time with the Rangers this season, and the top-4 were all very closely grouped together.
Keith Yandle, like Gardiner, is basically the classic stats vs. eye test defenceman. He was arguably New York's 2nd best defenceman last season. And the idea that he's a mess defensively is completely overblown.
Bates said:
Well yeah that's fair, but I'd say that his status as that would be more than warranted.
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Bullfrog said:
I like them because I find them easier to understand than most stats things thrown out there. But basically you want your graph to be as high as possible for each of those metrics and the creator estimates the point at which a D should be considered top 2/4/6 etc based on those metrics. I find them very clean and easy to refer to if you quickly want to get some sense of 1 or 2 players.