Comments on: For anyone who's keeping score http://stillnoname.com/2010/04/for-anyone-whos-keeping-score/ Insert Witty Caption Here Tue, 15 May 2012 16:33:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gerard http://stillnoname.com/2010/04/for-anyone-whos-keeping-score/comment-page-1/#comment-1418 Gerard Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:06:29 +0000 http://stillnoname.com/?p=720#comment-1418 Again, I wasn't arguing in favour of the Khabibulin signing. There just weren't other good options. And in retrospect (which is what matters, really) the Khabibulin deal didn't hurt the team. Even if he had stayed healthy for the entire season the season still would have been flushed due to injury. Maybe not #1 pick flushed, but top 5. The extra cap space wouldn't have made any difference this season and next season there still would have been a number of big contracts sent out of town or bought out. So the cap hit isn't going to be affecting next season either, and likely not the one after that (if they're really planning a scorched-Earth scenario). That leaves one season of the Bulin contract potentially affecting the cap. However, by that time the team was expecting Bulin to be playing backup anyway. The point is that whether or not you like or liked the signing, if it doesn't actually limit the team via the cap, using the cap as an argument for why it was a bad signing is moot. Khabibulin's contract doesn't affect the team. The only thing that it affects is Katz's wallet. The whole thing was and continues to be blown way out of proportion. Again, I wasn’t arguing in favour of the Khabibulin signing. There just weren’t other good options. And in retrospect (which is what matters, really) the Khabibulin deal didn’t hurt the team. Even if he had stayed healthy for the entire season the season still would have been flushed due to injury. Maybe not #1 pick flushed, but top 5. The extra cap space wouldn’t have made any difference this season and next season there still would have been a number of big contracts sent out of town or bought out. So the cap hit isn’t going to be affecting next season either, and likely not the one after that (if they’re really planning a scorched-Earth scenario).

That leaves one season of the Bulin contract potentially affecting the cap. However, by that time the team was expecting Bulin to be playing backup anyway.

The point is that whether or not you like or liked the signing, if it doesn’t actually limit the team via the cap, using the cap as an argument for why it was a bad signing is moot. Khabibulin’s contract doesn’t affect the team. The only thing that it affects is Katz’s wallet.

The whole thing was and continues to be blown way out of proportion.

]]> By: Eetu Huisman http://stillnoname.com/2010/04/for-anyone-whos-keeping-score/comment-page-1/#comment-1417 Eetu Huisman Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:40:46 +0000 http://stillnoname.com/?p=720#comment-1417 If they had signed Khabibulin to a one-year deal worth 3,75M, I don't most of the people had had any issues with it, except maybe his history of injury problems. Even if he continues to perform on an acceptable level next year, it is highly unlikely that he would do so until the end of the 2012-13 season. If they had signed Khabibulin to a one-year deal worth 3,75M, I don’t most of the people had had any issues with it, except maybe his history of injury problems. Even if he continues to perform on an acceptable level next year, it is highly unlikely that he would do so until the end of the 2012-13 season.

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