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Originally Posted by JDM
Ok, seriously folks. You can say Greene is a #5-6 guy on a good team all you want. Fact of the matter is he is not a 'good' team, he IS our #2 guy behind Johnson and there are no shut-down dmen grabbing at his heals. Hickey, Voinov, Martinez, all puck movers, not shut down dmen. We can't have a top 4 full of smallish puck movers.
So is Lombardi supposed to say "Look Matt, we like you. We traded for you, we made you an alternate captain, and we want you around a long time. However, though you are OUR top pairing guy, you wouldn't be San Jose's, therefore I want to pay you like you're on San Jose like the bottom pairing dman you really are, though you need to be good enough to be our top pairing dman until I can replace you. Now, sign on the dotted line please. Fresca?"
Seriously...
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I see what you are saying....but will he be the Kings top pairing guy in 3 years? Over Doughty, Johnson, Teubert and Hickey? Because then you have to look at having a 5-6 defenseman making $3 million or try to trade him. But if he is going to be a 5-6 defenseman on most other teams it will be hard to move his contract.