Mastodon @Seattle Kraken [ECH] Seravalli says the Kraken and Eberle have been working on a contract extension at 2 x ~$4.5m, “but that wasn’t enough to get it done.” Eberle wanted a third year. “Without a new contract, the Kraken will be moving Eberle”
wow
by BigHunt_02
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Sucks to see, but at least we know they are gonna try and get some value whether it is through re-signing or through trade.
If he wants 4.5 then trade him yesterday..
Sorry Ebs I love you but if you want to stay you know the price you need to sign for.
4.5 are you high???
Wait, maybe I’m not understanding… 2 @ 4.5 a year, and he wanted 3 @ 4.5 a year? Or we wanted 2 years at 4.5 total and he wanted 3 years at 4.5 or more total?
Yeah Ebs, your production over the past couple of years has not been good enough for 3 more years. Time to move on and start bringing in some offensive talent.
I hope Seravalli is wrong. It would suck for Ebs to move two games shy of 1000.
3 x 4.5 if is a bit steep unfortunately. I would be fine with a 3 year deal closer to 3 or 3.5, but Eberle is tied for second oldest on the team with a few other guys at 33 years old. He is likely over his peak unless something crazy happens.
If he put up the same numbers he put up last year I could be swayed, but last year is looking as though it could be an outlier given how much an offensive powerhouse the team was as a whole.
Damn, this is sad.
At the end of a 2 year contract though he’ll be 36, I honestly don’t think I can blame Ron Francis on this. It’s still crushing in a way though, like there goes our top 6 and one of our pseudo captains.. 🙁
Edit: didn’t notice he wanted 3 years at that aav, 37 is even riskier at that price. Man this sucks.
Love Ebs but that’s way too much for a guy that eats up 1st line minutes that produces like a middle 6. Team needs to move on to actually improve
That’s steeeeep anyway. He supposedly wants to stay in Seattle he’s gotta settle a bit, no one will pay him that
I’ll still wear my 7 jersey forever though, solid guy to start this team up.
If Ebs moves, maybe we do extend Tatar then.
Sorry but they have until the deadline. Even if it’s Svengali, I’m not believing anything until it come from the org
Prediction: Ebs to Edmonton and then rejoins the Kraken org after retirement
Inb4 he returns to the island
Yeah, I am all for *someone else* paying a 35+ Eberle over $4 million per. Happy not to be on the hook for that.
I’m hoping it’s a bluff and Ebs takes the 4.5 x 2, or a compromise (3 to 4 x 3)? Love to see the Kraken’s first All-Star, first hat trick, and first overtime goal scorer leave, alternate captain, and one of my all-time favorite players going back to his WJH Canada & Oiler days, stick around in the Emerald City. I’d hate for my Ebs home jersey to be outdated too. 😥
This is such a bummer. Maybe an agreement can be made before the deadline.
Respect to Ebs, but I am glad to see the Kraken drawing a line on this one. We *need* to increase the value we are getting per dollar, not decrease it.
Eberle is already 34, and you’ll notice there aren’t too many players older than that in the NHL. Two years at 4.5 is probably optimistic/generous. Giving him a third year would not be a smart move.
Is it really that bad for a veteran presence? The cap is gonna be going up and 3 years would line up with when Shane needs a new contract. It doesn’t seem all that unreasonable to me.
So who’s starting the go-fund-me?
This is sad, but it’s a business at the end of the day.
It’s the right decision not to give him a three year extension, but it’lll be tough to see Eberle go. He’s been a good representative of the Kraken
I mean, we’re kind of already loaded with middle 6 type guys. We had that insane SH% and 4th line last year that made it all work out, but we really, really struggled to score reliably this year. There was a fairly substantial part of last year that we looked pretty bad too, if you look past the eventual outcome.
I like all of our players, but they form a pretty lousy roster IMO. Having some fan-favorite, really hard working but doesn’t put up great scoring numbers guys is a fun thing for a team to have. Every team has some room for those guys and really benefits from them. You can’t build your entire team out of that though, we do need another good finisher or two.
If we did run it back with the exact same crew, we’d probably be looking at roughly the same result again next year, so a couple of that top 9 really did need to go. Eberle’s value proposition to the team moving forward seemed a bit dubious to me, unless he was going to take 4th liner money or something with some term and potentially play a bit further down the lineup.
So it’s a bummer, but I think it’s probably necessary and the right choice.
Boo! Ebs is such an important part of the Kraken identity. When I think Kraken I think Eberle, Beniers, McCann, Dunn, Gourde and Tanev (in no particular order).
I made a comment literally 2 days ago in /r/hockey saying I was hoping Eberle would stay, hang the skates up in Seattle at the end of his next contract, and hopefully find a place in the org to continue growing the sport.
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Guess I was wrong :<
Maybe this is true, maybe not. The way it is reading seems like this is just Seravalli sharing his thoughts. He doesn’t indicate a source, so I don’t think this is coming from the Kraken. Everything I have read points to the Kraken will re-sign Eberle.
What is it about Seattle teams having trouble offering that third year??
I joke to hide the pain. Gonna miss a guy who wants to stick with the expansion team that chose him.