John McDonough fired

[anotheridiot]

Wow.

Your "connections" are what you are flaunting. You said you don't give a shit if I believe you, yet in almost all of your posts, you can't help but brag about how connected you are, as if that makes you know more than everyone else. If you want to think that being a season ticket holder makes you superior, go for it -- but nothing in your posts gets to the heart of the actual argument here. The fact of the matter, is that Panarin wouldn't have taken a million to two million raise just to stay here; and he wouldn't have signed another bridge deal. You know this. The discount he was supposedly willing to take, wouldn't have been enough for him to stay here.

The problem was that Bowman immediately gives up on what might happen over the two years because what is inevitable in two years. People seem to forget that Panarin earned over 2.5 million in bonus dollars that counted against the cap both of his years here, add his minimum salary and he was already making 3.5 - 4 against the cap. So moving to 6 was not as big as a jump as it seemed going from 925k to 6 million. The 6 million had no bonus kickers.

He did it with Saad, now he will do it with Kubalik while Kubaliks game is looking more like Hossas development.

 

[MassHavoc]

The problem was that Bowman immediately gives up on what might happen over the two years because what is inevitable in two years. People seem to forget that Panarin earned over 2.5 million in bonus dollars that counted against the cap both of his years here, add his minimum salary and he was already making 3.5 - 4 against the cap. So moving to 6 was not as big as a jump as it seemed going from 925k to 6 million. The 6 million had no bonus kickers.

He did it with Saad, now he will do it with Kubalik while Kubaliks game is looking more like Hossas development.

Hopefully he won't get the chance to do it again with Kubalik.

 

[LordKOTL]

The problem was that Bowman immediately gives up on what might happen over the two years because what is inevitable in two years. People seem to forget that Panarin earned over 2.5 million in bonus dollars that counted against the cap both of his years here, add his minimum salary and he was already making 3.5 - 4 against the cap. So moving to 6 was not as big as a jump as it seemed going from 925k to 6 million. The 6 million had no bonus kickers.

He did it with Saad, now he will do it with Kubalik while Kubaliks game is looking more like Hossas development.

I think part of the Panarin issue was trying to sparkplug Toews--and at the time Saad was a viable candidate to do so since we know Kane can produce on his own and didn't need Panarin. Couple that with the loss of Hossa and there is logic (albeit very faulty in hindsight) as to why the 'hawks made the Panarin move.

In hindsight, though, we should have kept Panarin irrespective. Saad, while not bad, didn't sparkplug Toews and there was no saving the team D from themselves. They should have just overdriven the O and then let Crawford carry the team D's sorry butts--and of course the team should have manned up and if Crawford was run, take the motherfucker out.