I guess when I see us wasting 4+ a year on guys like Brewer & Jackman, it just doesn't seem like a large amount of 'additional' money for a true difference maker. I know of Frolov's 'laziness', I was merely drawing a comparison because so many fans of talked of wanting him. And based on Lombardi's contract, I figured Frolov will be between 4 and 4.5 a year because of what he had done in 07-08 and 08-09.cprice12 wrote:"Only" $4 million more?DaDitka wrote:I think to put it in perspective....cprice12 wrote:$8.57 million per.
Probably slightly overpaid, but not by a ton.
I was figuring he was worth about $8 million per.
What if we bring in Frolov at about 4.5 mill a year......and we could have had Kovalchuck for only 4 mill more a year.
Or the fact that he's only making 4 mill more a year then Eric Brewer.
That said, he turned down much 'larger' offers, so there is no way to know he would have taken a similar deal from us.
That's quite a bit more.
If Frolov played to his potential, I think he'd be a better value than Kovalchuk...but I wouldn't want him at $4.5 million since he doesn't play to his potential.
Kings fans will tell you he is lazy and takes nights off, which would explain Frolov's point totals decreasing each of the last 4 years.
If we could get him for $3.25-$3.75 million for 3-4 years, I'd do that...but anything more...I dunno if I want to risk quite that much on him rebounding.
Frolov is one of those guys whom if you can get him cheap, would be a low-risk, very high-reward type of thing. Plus, he's only 28 years old...so you could argue that the next few years should be his best.
I don't really care how they spent the money, I just that while many are happy to see Paulie and Walt go (myself included) that's 31 gaols we have to make up on top of needing another 25 or so goals next year....I haven't seen any moves that help us in the direction yet.
Not resigning Carlo would have only set us further back off that mark.