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I can't believe there's so much animosity over a mediocre player extension. Definitely the offseason.

It's absolutely an option. Kari is a pretty good goalie and the price should not be to steep.

You're clearly a beta.

Oh. You mean "ring" as in phone call. Not "ring" as in jewelry.

Something something Zadina.

I don't care what you or someone else think either. I mean, aren't we all here quarreling on an anonymous Red Wings forum for entertainment? I'm certainly not on a mission to convince some guy I don't know on the other side of the planet what I believe on this issue or anything else. And it was never my intent for you to feel attacked. Anyways, we both agree on that one year would be better and we are closer together on the money than we was at the beginning. You see this more of a special case than I do. Sums it up pretty good. Peace, brother! I certainly hope so. I'm just curious how it works, though. If management and the players representatives both believed the deal would end in RFA and came into agreement and sent in the papers to the league offices and later found out that the league judged it so that Fabbri was entering UFA after it. Could the Red WIngs demand an annulment or to get the contract backtracked somehow? Its all very unlikely of course but in a scenario they both agreed maybe nobody bothered to pick up the phone and ask the league or PA what they thought. There sure seems to be room for a lot of interpetations in the CBA.

Yzerman could literally unbuckle his pants, drop trou, squat down, shart directly into a ladle, and then spoon-feed it to this fanbase, and 9/10 fans would turn around, thank him for it, and tell the rest of us how delightful the turd tastes. "The 10 pts per million rule always applies except for when I say it doesn't" okay Cause Yzerman is dropping the ball on contracts AGAIN

How should I know? That's irrelevant. Unless you're suggesting that overpayments don't exist because they don't make sense. Yzerman has, over the course of his GM career, over paid a number of players (Carle, Garrison, Filppula, Sustr, etc. etc. etc.) Why? I don't f*cking know. Maybe he's not a very good GM? Ever consider that? And I know this one will blow your mind too. LOTS of GMs over pay guys. Why? Who knows. But it happens. And it did in this case for all the reasons I stated ad nauseum.

Not sure that's the reason. Nobody is arguing with a silly exaggeration. They're arguing that the Fabbri contract is even an over payment at all. They're arguing that any suggestion that the contract isn't good is incorrect. Also, I've clarified a number of times since that post A) why I think it's an overpayment, and B) what I would have given him (1year, 1.5 million) and people are still arguing. See this is what I mean. You don't even think it's an overpayment at all. That's fine. I wish you'd just debate the actual substance of my argument which...for the 40 millionth time is...that an non-arbitration eligible RFA, with blown out knees, who has no track record of production, and has played less than 100 games in 3 years COULD have been signed for less. And because of that, it's an overpayment.