Gainey awarded Pleks with a pretty nice deal for a small center with ~40 points. It seems as though Gainey has recognized his talent, and is giving Pleks 1 more year to put up or get out. Gainey has burned his remaining cap space with this one, so forget getting Lang or Tanguay back.
I think this is a lot of money for a player who has failed to reach his potential, thus far. No doubt he is skilled and fast, but a threat he is not. He was dangerous short handed in 08, but when the pressure is on, Pleks is not. Even self admittedly, when he admitted he was playing like a little girl in the playoffs.
Still, you can do worse than Pleks, and hopefully the 1 yr contract doesn't get him down. Perhaps Jaque's new system will work well, and we'll see some explosive plays from the mini-man. I sure hope so- he can ne really exciting when his game is on.
On a side note, consider the depth of the two centennial teams:
2008/09:
Tanguay-Koivu-Higgins
Kovalev-Lang-Kostitsyn
etc...
2009/10:
Gionta-Gomez-Camelleri
Latendress-Plekanec-Kostitsyn
etc...
Better hope no one gets hurt. More on that later maybe.
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1 year ago
There is no way Martin is going to use Gionta Gomez and Cammallari togheter.
ReplyDeleteLook for Jacque sto makes to productive line such as
AK-46-Gomez-Gionta
Latendresse-Plekanec-Cammallari
pacioretty-lapierre-Moen
Stewart-Metropolite-D'agostini (sk-74)
All that if Bob is all done wich id be very surprised!
L'analyste.
Yeah, I wasn't presuming to actually guess the lines, so I just kinda went by salary. But we definitely now have less depth, I think.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what Gainey has left; he's almost burned his cap space, and unless he sheds Pleks somewhere else, I wouldn't expect to see any other major changes.
But I didn't expect Gomez either, so what do I know.