St. Louis sure did.Chef Boi RD wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 7:33 am Eventually you are going to have to sign one of your top players to a retirement contract as they all come to that eventually around there late 20’s. You just can’t keep showing the door to your top players when they are on the verge of their retirement contract due to fear, paranoia, angst, blah blah blah. You’ll never win a championship with that approach. Now the Senators management is saying “we need veterans, not enough vets on the team. What you need is a very strong balance of your 2 to 3 to 4 over 30 year olds, a strong middle age and a strong youthful element to the team. For my money, Miller is well worth keeping for merely the reason of how competitive and pissy he is and his he hates losing. You don’t let these leader types go. He’s heart and soul man.
Now, I agree that a team needs veterans for deep cup runs (look what Maroon brings to the table!), heck i could even agree on your age mix of players as well, but I disagree that one of those veterans has to be on a 'retirement contract'.
So we all are clear, I define 'retirement contract' as anything over 9% of the current cap, and 6 (or more) years signed after age 29 for a single player. Older Guys coming back at a 1 year term is not a 'Retirement Contract' IMO.... and neither is locking up a Hughes type for 8.5x8 (if we had done so)