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Post by habsgm on Aug 28, 2005 20:04:06 GMT -5
In light of the Luongo decision one could quite easily come to this conclusion. A goalie of his calibre deserves a salary equal to his peers.
I guess the only rationale would be that since most teams (as of today) many clubs are close to cap, Luongo's market value is a little less than what it would be if his case had been heard at the start of arbitration.
But seriously, his salary is inline with the RFA resignings - however it is not on par with the salaries of the upper echelon goalies in the league today. Argueably, the arbitrator made his decision not on where Luongo ranks as an NHL goalie and where that puts his salary in relation to other high end goalies. Rather he was compensated according to RFA resignings since the current CBA went into effect.
What does not make sense is that the arbitrator came in at 3.2 mil, whereas Luongo had already turned down an offer for 5.0 mil per year (5yrs).
Goalies signed since CBA went into effect Martin Biron $2.128 million (RFA) Sean Burke $1.6 million (UFA) Miikka Kiprusoff $2.9 million (RFA) Nikolai Khabibulin $6.75 million (UFA) David Aebischer $1.9 million (RFA) Manny Fernandez $1.672 million (RFA) Dan Cloutier $2.5 million (RFA)
Pre- CBA Martin Brodeur $5,237,238 Ed Belfour $4.56 million Olaf Kolzig $4.94 million Jean-Sebastien Giguere $3.99 million Evgeni Nabokov $3.363 million Patrick Lalime $2.432 million Marty Turco $3,161,795
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Post by edmontongm on Aug 28, 2005 23:23:56 GMT -5
Arbitrator decisions are largely based on performance from the previous season. Luongo may have had the most saves and an outstanding save percentage, but it did not translate into wins for Florida, and his GAA was below league average. Luongo and his representatives obviously took a chance on the arbitrator decision (remember that Florida decided to go to arbitration, not Luongo).
The Luongo camp obviously made a mistake on what his value in the new NHL was. Or he doesn't want to be in south Florida for very long.
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Post by habsgm on Aug 29, 2005 8:44:48 GMT -5
Or he doesn't want to be in south Florida for very long. I don't say that this decsision engenders him to the new Keenan/Martin era in Florida. As I understand it, the soonest (contractually) he could leave town, aside from being dealt, is the end of next season - after sitting it out.
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