Cost of Replacing Ovechkin
by HateOffSeason on Oct 29, 2009 10:18 PM EDT
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While watching the Caps vs. Atlanta (ie. watching my hyper child destroy my house), I had this interesting thought. What would it cost us to replace Alexander Ovechkin's goal production. I also came to the disturbing realization that Ovechkin reads as a misspelled word on a Caps blog...weird. Anyway, what I was thinking is looking at each team in the east, what do they spend to get the same number of goals that we get from our one guy. I wonder if we get our money's worth.
In doing this, I always took the highest priced player on the team for comparison that fit into the scoring profile. The higher priced players are more likely to consistently score goals at this pace (most of these guys are at the top of their teams score sheets). I also chose the quickest combinations to 13 goals. It doesn't make much sense to try to compare the production of 7 different guys when you can do it with 3. Besides, you couldn't fit 7 more guys on the team anyway.
For this exercise I am looking for exactly the same goal output as #8, no more and no less.
All numbers from http://www.hockeybuzz.com/cap-central/ .
So in alphabetical order by team, here we go, what they pay in salary, and to who for 13 goals.
Atlanta - Kovy (9g, $6,389,260) + Evander Kane (3g, $3,100,000) + Ron Hainsey (1g, $4,500,000) = $13,989,260
Boston - Savard (4g, $5,000,000) + Bergeron (3g, $4,750,000) + Ryder (3g, $4,000,000) + Wheeler (3g, 2,825,000) = $16,575,000
Buffalo - MacArthur (5g, $1,400,000) + Vanek (4g, $7,142,857) + Pominville (3g, $5,300,000) + Hecht (1g, $3,525,000) = $17,367,857
Carolina - Whitney (4g, $3,550,000) + Cullen (3g, $2,875,000) + Jokinen (3g, $1,700,000) + Staal (3g, $8,250,000) = $16,375,000
Florida - Reinprecht (5g, $2,050,000) + Weiss (3g, $3,100,000) + Booth (2g, $4,250,000) + Horton (2g, $4,000,000) + McCabe (1g, $5,750,000) = $19,150,000
Montreal - Cammalleri (5g, $6,000,000) + Gionta (4g, $5,000,000) + Plekanec (3g, $2,750,000) + Kostitsyn (1g, $3,250,000) = $17,000,000
Devils - Parise (6g, $3,125,000) + Zajac (5g, $3,887,500) + Rolston (2g, $5,062,500) = $12,075,000
Islanders - Moulson (6g, $575,000) + Tavares (4g, $3,750,000) + Tambellini (3g, $587,500) = $4,912,500
Rangers - Gaborik (10g, $7,500,000) + Dubinsky (3g, $1,850,000) = $9,350,000
Ottawa - Michalek (6g, $4,333,333) + Alfredsson (5g, $4,875,000) + Neil (2g, $2,000,000) = $11,208,333
Flyers - Richards (6g, $5,750,000) + Briere (5g, $6,500,000) + Pronger (2g, $6,250,000) = $18,500,000
Penguins - Crosby (9g, $8,700,000) + Malkin (4g, $8,700,000) = $17,400,000
Tampa - Stamkos (9g, $3,725,000) + St. Louis (3g, $5,250,000) + Lecavalier (1g, $7,727,273) = $16,702,273
Toronto - Hagman (6g, $3,000,000) + Stempniak (3g, $2,500,000) + Ponikarovsky (3g, $2,105,000) + Kaberle (1g, $4,250,000) = $11,855,000
Wow, I'd have to say we aren't doing too bad just paying Ovechkin $9,538,462 for his 13 goals. Only the Islanders and the Rangers are paying less. Besides, by having that production in just one player, it also allows us to fit the Professor onto the roster and his incredible goal pace from only one spot on the ice.
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You should go the west too!
"And next year it will be ours."
by Ovechwin on Oct 29, 2009 10:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Tell you what…knock yourself out and put it in the comments :)
by HateOffSeason on Oct 29, 2009 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Emphasis on the word you :P
(rec’d btw)
"And next year it will be ours."
by Ovechwin on Oct 29, 2009 11:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don’t let Ovi’s agent see this. What? Oh.
Well, then.
IS PAЯTY NOW
by Your Nation's Capital on Oct 29, 2009 11:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Isles appear to have some rookie contract action there. That won’t last.
IS PAЯTY NOW
by Your Nation's Capital on Oct 29, 2009 11:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Of course it won’t, but that kind of turnover is needed on every team. If you don’t have rookie contract guys contributing, you get old and very expensive fast. And then you turn into the Redskins.
by HateOffSeason on Oct 29, 2009 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He got two just last night. One of ’em real pretty.
IS PAЯTY NOW
by Your Nation's Capital on Oct 30, 2009 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nothing we haven’t seen before… ;-)
by FFSEnough on Oct 30, 2009 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That second goal was one Ovi would have been proud to score…
Let's go Caps!
by MikeL-Caps on Oct 30, 2009 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i’m gonna say this thread cursed the team and is the cause of Ovie’s injury. Now I know you meant it financially, BUT in the next game after this thread, Ovie went out and got hurt and is now “week to week.” I guess now we’ll find out what the cost, not financially,to the team is NOT having Ovie.
by bigity b on Nov 6, 2009 10:57 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I made mention to that in another thread. I could swear I was knocking on wood at the time, but maybe the pressed kind with a picture of wood grain that my desk is made of doesn’t count. But yeah, it was made as an attempt of looking at if we never even had him, not what we would have to do if he got injured.
by HateOffSeason on Nov 6, 2009 11:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m sure he’s going to be put on LTIR this month.
by CapsFan75 on Nov 8, 2009 9:22 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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Washington
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22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 30 |
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Tampa Bay
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19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 23 |
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Atlanta
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18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 22 |
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Florida
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Carolina
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