Des négociations contractuelles entre #SeaKraken et le camp de Matty Beniers sont en cours, bien qu’à leurs tout débuts. Les négociations devraient reprendre la semaine prochaine, après le regroupement, me dit-on. Il sort de son ELC, toutes les options (long ou court terme) sont sur la table.
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Genuinely curious how this will go after his sophomore slump.
I expect him to get paid, but I would wager negotiations would have been better for him had his year been more similar to the previous.
I’ll admit I don’t try to look too hard into contracts because NHL money is such a crazy system.
I wonder if they will try to talk him into a short contract ending when Gru’s does with the expectation that high production = high pay when a lot of cap is projected to open up, or if they’re just gonna wanna lock him down long term now with the expectation that he is a franchise leader for years to come.
The salary cap is real and I hope they don’t overpay and handcuff the team for 6+ years. His rookie season production was very front loaded in the first half. Since then his last 1.5 season stats show him to be a third line player. Hopefully they pay him no more than a third line guy with a second line upside.
Easy bridge/show me deal, no? 3.5-5.5 over 2-4 years I bet. His stock dropped a fair amount.
Can we put a clause in there that limits the number of times he can fall down on the ice ?
Hockey summer is almost here! It’s kinda a shame everything is crammed on the back end. It was nice when we had some time between the finals, draft day, and free agency. I heard it’s going to stay this way because ESPN has baseball and they don’t want the start of the season competing with the MLB playoffs.
I see the « matty beniers is a 3rd liner » folks are here in force
Here’s my take. What you believe matty should be paid will be based on if you belived this season was either an aberration wherein he suffered just as the rest of the team did, or if you believe his offensive production this season was what should be expected from him and his rookie year was the aberration.
Personally, I lean more on the side that he both had a sophomore slump as is rather common amongst rookies, and that he suffered under a failing offensive system (or lack thereof) that the whole team suffered under.
This is also not even getting into the fact that as a 2nd year nhl player matty is allready establishing himself as one of the best defensive centers, which is likely going to get him more money on its own.
I think with next season and seeing shane, matty will have a better opportunity to shine, I think this last season too much need was put on his plate to produce offensively given the other centers just were not able to produce. But with another offensive center who can take a bit of the load off, I think he can be successful. I think if we look at how matty did when shane was up near the end of the season we can see this more clearly. That and Matty just played way better after the allstar break last season, both by the eye test and the scoring one.
I think we should all prepare for him to likely get at a minimum 6 million.
I understand the desire to sign Beniers to a bridge deal. He wildly fluctuated between year one and year two. But my fear with a bridge deal is that a third contract ends up costing more. The talent is undeniable. Young players like him never get cheaper. I say sign him long-term. Cap is going up. The inherited contracts from the expansion draft are coming off the books.