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Forum: Armchair-GM19 hours ago
Thread: Reichel Contract
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wadejos123</b></div><div>I mean he definitely hasn't earned the 2.1M that you have here. We have all the cap space so it doesn't really matter, but just going based on what he's proven to be worth i'd say 1 year 950k. Gives him the chance to proves he's a full time contributing NHL'er.</div></div>

If he were arbitration eligible, he would most likely command around $1.5-2M, given his total production over the last few years. His struggles in the first 3/4's of the year weren't entirely his fault, either. They asked him to bulk up a substantial amount over the summer, which he did, and then they asked him to jump straight into a full time role in the NHL as a top 6 center, which he doesn't have a ton of experience playing.

He was drafted as a "center" and has certainly tried to play center and been put there a few times, and I kept hearing the rhetoric the last few seasons that he would or did play center for Rockford, but I watched a lot of their games the last few years and he almost never did. I don't know where the disconnect is, if it's CHI beat writers, and/or internal communication shortcomings, but anyone who says different is just wrong because I know what I saw and it was never a center. Even in most of the games where they had him listed as a center on the line combinations, they would quickly move him back to the wing.
Forum: NHL Signings19 hours ago
Thread: Chicago Blackhawks signed Alex Vlasic (6 Years / $4,600,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CSStrowbridge</b></div><div>He's good defensively, but I think a LOT of people are overvaluing his his defensive abilities. That said, I think 3rd pair is too low.</div></div>

Both analytically and by the eye test, Vlasic was a top 5 defensive dman in the league through the regular season, on one of the worst teams in the league with an absolutely brutal goal differential. If he can add more offense, which should be relatively easy as the team gets better as a whole, he will be the next Slavin/Toews/Lindgren type of LD, maybe even better and more valuable than them, especially at that cap hit for the next 6 years.

That said, yeah, there are a lot of people who overvalued his abilities and were making predictions in the $6-8M aav range. Which was absolutely ridiculous, imo. You don't give that kind of money out on such a small sample size. But this contract has a good chance to be looked at as one of the best bargains in the league within a couple years.
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