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Some other comparable contracts signed recently. Josh Norris Nick Suzuki Both guys signed very large contract extensions after displaying a very limited track record.

At $6.5M, Reinhart is underpaid for 82 points. Hypothetically, if Reinhart is going to put up 82 points every season, Thompson would need to put up even more points than that for the contract to be equal value in any given season. But that doesn’t mean that Thompson needs to put up point per game seasons in order to be worth his contract. His contract value will not be judged in comparison to Reinhart’s alone, but against the NHL as a whole, as @dudacek laid out.

Haha. Yes, I see. I can’t read real good. Sorry about that.

You wrote 25 goals, 30 assists, 65 points. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Your numbers don’t add up. Did you mean it to be 55, or 65 points?

I can’t full agree that he needs to be point per game to avoid being overpaid. As a general rule of thumb, a point is worth about $120k of contract value. So I’d say he needs to be about a 60 point player, not a point per game guy, in order to “earn” his contract. A few years down the road, after the cap goes up, it will probably be more like 50 points as a break even. If Thompson averages 55 points per season over the life of the contract, I’d call that a definite win.

I have never been able to see a satanic goat, or a dragon, or anything other than a charging bison head.

I appreciate that he plays with enough of an edge to get tossed from a game.

I went with option 2. I’m not really confident that he will “break out” with a Thompson-esk 70 point pace, but I feel very confident that if he remains healthy he can show that he is a middle 6 quality forward who is useful on the PP.

Ages 30-36 at $8M per

Watching him play evokes Connolly in my mind.

You are right! Reinhart is older than Quinn!

https://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/stats.html Basically true. Scoring spiked in 2017-18.

I think that both Peters and Rivet disagree with a lot of things regarding how the Sabres were managed when they were there. They have discussed it several times. Peters also is bitter toward the NHL of his era in general and the career role that he feels he was kind of pushed into. He seems to think that if he hadn’t be pushed into being an enforcer, he could have been a contributing bottom 6 player. Needing to fight caused him a lot stress, anxiety, and contributed to his substance abuse/addiction issues. I don’t know if they purposely take different sides of a debate. They may at times, but in this case regarding a potential and now actual Thompson extension, they have been consistent in their positions for months.

That was a fun read. It’s pretty much void of all relevant context. I wouldn’t recommend reading it as anything other than comedy.

Would he make Buffalo a better team than they are? Is he any better than Bryson? Honestly asking.

Hope that’s true. Never really know with goalies. UPL definitely needs more time though. I’m hoping the does well this season and next season gets a shot at being the full time backup in Buffalo. I think that’s best case scenario.

I see no point in the Sabres making that deal, or trading for Nils Lunqvist at all really. Sabres don’t need to spend assets for an offense first defenseman. Its not a good fit. I’d say Mittelstadt is more valuable to the Sabres.

Unknown quantity? I’m pretty sure that he is a quantity of one person. His future as an NHL player, however, is an unknown entity.

The goathead is the logo of my youth. In the beginning, I didn’t know there had ever been any other. I don’t buy sweaters, but I’m seriously considering getting a black/red and/or blue/gold hat or t-shirt.

There are real disadvantages though, right? (I’m sure there are some advantages though too) I always thought the main disadvantage of a D playing their off side is that when you are battling around the wall, or picking pucks off the wall, you are doing it on your backhand instead of your forehand.

I may actually attempt this when I get some time. But for me the hang isn’t really strictly at 15%. The real question for me is how many of the experienced a dramatic drop/increase from one year to the next? If Tage shoots 13.7% next season, I’m not going to be concerned. If he has a dramatic drop to 10.3% or something like that, then I may be concerned. So I might look to see how many of those 58 guys who shot 15%+, had shot less than 12% the season before.

I don’t get why people keep saying that Thompson’s shooting percentage is unsustainably high at 15.0%. In the 2021-22 season there were 59 NHL players who scored 20+ goals and had a shooting % of 15 or higher. It’s not a number that’s only achievable by the 4-5 top goal scorers in the league.

In this case, the poster who got “chastised” isn’t an unwelcome newcomer though. Buffanil posts here just about as much as anyone and has for quite a while. He get flack, not because he is new, but for being consistently negative, rightly or wrongly.