Post by Personnel Representative on May 23, 2011 14:33:57 GMT -5
Player: Anssi Salmela
Stats: 48 1 6 7 -11
Sitting Jury: Nashville, Pittsburgh, Carolina
For New Jersey:
Proposed Salary:$0.620M
Anssi is a serviceable defenseman for our team. He knows his role and gets the job done. With that said, he is nothing more than a fringe bottom pairing d-man and mainly a #7. As a guy known mainly for his offense, with pretty shaky defense, he only managed 7 points in 48 games last season. He made $0.6125M last season and we are still offering him a raise to just simply continue playing in his role.
For Salmela:
Proposed Salary: 0.95M
We went a little higher than usual on our end because we feel NJ has gone extremely low on his offers and want to give the Arbitration Jury a fair range to consider. Devils has turned down offers as low as 0.7M, and we feel it's time to move on. Most players throughout the league in the same position as Salmela received an appropriate salary increase, and we feel that just because NJ joined late and did not have time to re-negotiate with everyone else, that he should not be given special treatment. There is half a league full of players who were given fair contracts, both from real-life negotiations previously, or from PR here, and we feel Anssi should be given his fair slice as well. We also feel that Anssi's projected role as a fringe player on NJ should not reflect salary considerations, since it is not reflective of his free-market value. It is simply reflective of NJ not needing this player's services, and that perhaps FA would be a better option.
Remember, you don;t need to choose a
side, so much as decide on a salary. It
can be anything.
Stats: 48 1 6 7 -11
Sitting Jury: Nashville, Pittsburgh, Carolina
For New Jersey:
Proposed Salary:$0.620M
Anssi is a serviceable defenseman for our team. He knows his role and gets the job done. With that said, he is nothing more than a fringe bottom pairing d-man and mainly a #7. As a guy known mainly for his offense, with pretty shaky defense, he only managed 7 points in 48 games last season. He made $0.6125M last season and we are still offering him a raise to just simply continue playing in his role.
For Salmela:
Proposed Salary: 0.95M
We went a little higher than usual on our end because we feel NJ has gone extremely low on his offers and want to give the Arbitration Jury a fair range to consider. Devils has turned down offers as low as 0.7M, and we feel it's time to move on. Most players throughout the league in the same position as Salmela received an appropriate salary increase, and we feel that just because NJ joined late and did not have time to re-negotiate with everyone else, that he should not be given special treatment. There is half a league full of players who were given fair contracts, both from real-life negotiations previously, or from PR here, and we feel Anssi should be given his fair slice as well. We also feel that Anssi's projected role as a fringe player on NJ should not reflect salary considerations, since it is not reflective of his free-market value. It is simply reflective of NJ not needing this player's services, and that perhaps FA would be a better option.
Remember, you don;t need to choose a
side, so much as decide on a salary. It
can be anything.
All Hail Anssi!