Hank wrote:
So what? Lots of Canucks had injuries last year. Is having a broken bone easier to come back from than a concussion? Is a broken finger worse than a shoulder or rib? A healthy Burrows was still not very good and his contract is still bad. It was bad the day Gillis offered it.
Hank, I encourage you to look into the details before making sweeping statements.
Your example of broken bone versus concussion versus broken finger etc... I don't know where you're going here. The bottom line with Burrows last season was his number one skill of speed was taken away from him early in the season and he really didn't recover until it was too late.
Hank wrote:
Woo! Big fuckin' deal. A bunch of goals against crappy teams when the season was pretty much decided. Wow look at those stats! That projects to Burrows scoring 50 goals a season for the next 3 years!
There was stretch where Richardson, Kassian and Booth was doing all the scoring as the 3rd line. Does that mean we should have kept Booth, make Richardson the 1st line center and play Kassian 20+ minutes a game now?
Cherry pick any stretch and a player will look good.
If you were the owner who spent that much money on ex-employees already, would you buy out 1 year or 3?
That doesn't mean management hasn't approached the long-term core with the NTCs. From all accounts, they all refused with Garrison finally giving in.
Yes we all honestly watched Mathowny. This team was bad and needed drastic changes. Keeping what looks to be a role player, while there are better and younger alternatives, for $4.5 million for 3 more years is a BAD investment.
Hey.. its Mathonwy. Ok? Or Math for short. Spell it right please. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like me referring to you as Frank.
I'm not cherry picking any player. I'm looking at Alex Burrows and what he has shown himself to be capable of. And I saw that player finally putting up points (like his old self) after getting healthy.
If I were the owner, I'd look at several factors before buying out players
- is that player taking up a spot that younger players could be filling?
- what roles does that player fill. The more the better obviously.
- and finally, how will the market react to the buy out.
Alex is more useful than David Booth across the board and we're not exactly overflowing with talented wingers. David is also a weird dude that never fit versus Alex who is (like it or not) a big time fan favorite.
So regardless of the money, I'd buy out David Jesus Booth every time. The team burnt a lot of good will last year and buying Alex out would be pouring gasoline on a fairly good size fire.