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Originally Posted by Fletch
I agree Edge. I keep forgetting that he signed for three seasons. He's been a career AHLer, for the most part, with one NHL season under his belt and he gets signed for 3 years.
On the other hand, because he does have that toughness, he likely can always have a role on the fourth line if his production really isn't there. Of course at $1MM per, you can also find an option at half that price to just skate around and be tough.
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Which is exactly my point.
I have little doubt Sather and company saw something the liked. I question what exactly they saw for $1-million a season over three years.
He's got 55 games of NHL experience in which he scored 7 goals and frankly wasn't that impressive as a fighter. Factor in that some of his production came on a team that gave him higher minutes and look at his AHL numbers and I don't see the ceiling some people seem to think they're getting.
The one thing I can be sure of is that Voros will check and aggrivate. But I don't know if that was worth the contract length/amount he got. It pretty much gurantees him a spot and I don't think Voros is at the point where you take him as a "given" like that.
It seems like a typical "the grass is always greener" kind of move. A guy like Byers plays the exact same game, is younger, a better fighter and put up better AHL numbers.
The difference for Byers is that he didn't play on a crappy team that was willing to call him up. So essentially the mindset is that we should trade him to a bad team, let them take the "gamble" and then we'll sign him after a 55 games.
No matter how you slice it to me, it just doesn't add up.
