This. Even back when they signed, among all the excitement you knew that this was going to come back and haunt them. Question is how much value can we expect at this stage of the contracts? I see maybe another 2 maybe 3 seasons. We will have to see. Foligno contract seems like CF put a lot of faith into his potential to help the bottom 6 with that term. Excited hockey is back!
- Minsoh
Well as I stated, those signings immediately turned the Wild into perennial playoff contenders... They've been in the post season every season since. I think the value is diminished or lost once they start missing the post season.
Now it's fair to say that that investment made them playoff contenders but not necessarily "cup" contenders, and that IMO is the big rub. In a perfect world those 2 signings should at some point get a team into cup contention but that in fact has not been reality.
I'm not sure I've seen enough out of Foligno to warrant that contract term, but who knows, maybe Fletch finally gets lucky and has the pieces he needed now in place to get over that hump.