Last week (or was it the week before) the talk was about a possible trade. This week the negative nellies have turned to offer sheets. Oh, maybe I should’t have said “negative nellies”, perhaps the better term is indeed idiot. For that is how DJ Bean introduces himself in his latest article on CSNNE.
It’s true, that’s how he starts off the article.
I hate articles about offer sheets. Most of them are idiotic. This puts me in a pickle, as I am an idiot.
Yes, it’s about the complicated nature of offer sheets, why no one pulls the trigger on them, and how the Bruins would be screwed if someone did. It kind of feels like his boss said, “Hey DJ, you need to create some hockey content right now.”
“On what? There’s nothing to report.”
“I’m sure you can come up with something.”
I’m glad that Bean is writing about hockey matters because Haggs is awful and putting DJ on football detail is a waste. He admits that offer sheets are hard to wrap one’s head around
and it possible might mean that the players’ grandmother is bound to the deal by having to make all the pies for Canadian Thanksgiving for the next 25 years and well as becoming in-game entertainment for no fewer than 20 home games per season for the length of the deal.
Don’t do that to grandma. Nobody wants that.
Seriously, one reason that offer sheets don’t happen, besides pissing off fellow general managers, is that the language is less straight forward, but not entirely incomprehensible, than most CBA issues.
Another reason why I hate articles about offer sheets: Because its authors (definitely myself included once upon a time) often don’t understand RFA compensation. The draft picks awarded to victimized teams are done based not on the actual cap hit/average annual value of the deal, but of the deal’s total money divided by years or five, whichever is smallest.
So when you see charts such as this one …
… it doesn’t mean that you can sign a player to a seven-year, $7.8 million deal and only have to surrender a first, a second and a third. That contract would contain $54.6 million in total dollars, and since five is fewer than seven, the total money would be divided by five. That would make the number $10.9 million, which would cost a team four first-round picks.
If you understood all that, I offer both congratulations and my apologies, but here’s where the part about the Bruins being vulnerable comes in: A longer deal would carry a higher cap hit because it buys out years of free agency; a shorter deal would carry a lower cap hit because it gets Pastrnak to his next big raise even sooner. If a team signs Pastrnak to an offer sheet that splits the difference, the Bruins get the worst of both worlds.
The regional sister station/ website CSN Philly is still talking about a possible Pastrnak trade as of August 19th, even though it was denied last week. Yes, Pastrnak would be a great get for them but the writers don’t want to give up anything good in return, so why even talk about this. Oh, right, this off season has been the worst.
Donny, I asked you to do the thing yesterday.
Don Sweeney, please sign Pasta at 2:45pm at the peak of the eclipse. Use this astronomical occurrence to distract & confuse him. #SignPasta
— VA (@djva73) August 21, 2017
Please, do the thing today, or tomorrow, or by the end of the week.
Morning all,
So i have some good news and some bad news.
Good News: i was offered a job by my manager finally.
Bad News: It is a Pitts. location vacancy only.
Thanks for waiting till i bought a house to offer it to me….ugh. Not an easy decision.
Ummm, congrats, I think. The timing isn’t great, but hey beats the termination thing.
Congratualtions!
Uh oh.
How long do you have to think on it? Does not taking it affect your current job status negatively?
Currently speaking the company is in Bankruptcy, so my position as it currently stands is in stern jeopardy. However, the company is in Bankruptcy so even a full time position does not guarantee a safe job or happy existence….but its more then what i have now.
Wow, that’s a difficult one for sure.
Yay! Boo!
But yeah, oof, that’s a tough one.
Getting emails about fantasy hockey. The season must be near!!!!!
Haha! Just saw the same email and giggled a little.
Hi!
May I begin by going a bit off-topic and saying a big well done to those of you who went along to the counter-protest at the weekend. When you see Tweets like this one, you can see what a difference it makes:
I know there’s no real urgent need to #SignPasta until the last days of the offseason, but I wish they would just to stop all the rumours. But then what would the hockey media write? Hmmm.
Just listened to that Gang of Four album suggested yesterday. Pretty good. It was actually what I expected London Calling to sound like before I heard that one.
Game of Thrones spoiler alert:
That’s great. I would march again if it continues to drive those jerkfaces away.
I found a little video online that those idiots posted after the BPD had sent them home.
They were all off hiding in some dingy little clubhouse pretending to claim some sort of moral victory. I was going to go taunt them, but remembered there are bigger fish to fry, and that I need not get sucked into dealing with a defeated opponent.
Not when there’s a video out there of one of them looking scared and waiting for police assistance (because, you know, we had a guy with a tuba on our side…)
The Clash’s first record is their “noisy” one. They brought in more genre influences for London Calling. Same for Sandinista!
My typing skills es no bueno today. Sandinista! was supposed to be in italics but I quoted it instead and now I can’t fix it properly.
haha! I was wondering what that was all about!
It’s a miracle I get out the door in the morning.
And now listening to the first Clash record. Then will move onto the Stone Roses since that seems to be the B2B Record Club choice of the day.
And I have been enjoying the B2B Record Club. This was a great accidental idea!
I’m quite familiar with the Stone Roses, so I’ve gone for Stripes alternative recommendation, Bites by Skinny Puppy
And yes, I do talk to myself a lot.
Sign Pasta.
Definitely brought the clash to mind!
Definite thumbs-up to Entertainment! by Gang of Four! Will take IW’s recommendation and listen to the Stone Roses today.
Sign Pasta.
I’m guessing you’ve already listened to Bites by Skinny Puppy. If not, you should.
Hey Pals!
These are the days when hockey writers really earn their salt. When there is nothing to write about, but hockey fans are desperate for news. There’s the Olympics?
Must….. show….patience (read in your best Shatner).
8 days away from the big trip!!!!! Still no do, re, mi.
Most coffee!!!!!
Patience!?!
