No strangers to using unique approaches in asserting their business (Steve Ott’s third-jersey reveal, the novelty of which was overshadowed by the ugliness of the sweater comes to mind), the Buffalo Sabres signed Cody Hodgson to a six-12 months contract extension Wednesday, then took to Vine for Hodgson to make the announcement:
The term, which wasn’t included within the video because they solely had six seconds, trickled out later: $25.5 million over the subsequent six years. It’s a cap hit of $four.25 million per season.
We await a Vine from Derek Stepan of the Rangers’ RFA rubbing his hands collectively in delight. Either that or one from Nazem Kadri, smacking his brow over and over as he realizes he ought to have heeded the recommendation of Wilson Phillips and held out for yet another day.
Kadri, you see, took the bridge contract — the brief-term, “prove it” deal between contract 1 and contract 3 that is been all the fad this summer season. Hodgson, however, did not.
Good for Hodgson, though one wonders if the Sabres shouldn’t have been more insistent on it. In any case, while Hodgson gave them 34 factors in 48 video games in his first full season in Buffalo, the lockout-shortened year isn’t actually a lot of a full season. Furthermore, while he produced quite a bit, his defensive struggles had been so pronounced that Ron Rolston dropped him to the fourth line late within the season, much like Alain Vigneault typically did with Hodgson in Vancouver.
That’s some huge cash to commit to a man that still hasn’t proven he can play in each ends. A shorter-time period contract would have given the Sabres more time to look at the player — like, say, eighty games, no less than. As an alternative, they gave Hodgson massive-time time period, and now they’re just going to must hope that was wise.
If it wasn’t, the Sabres are going to hate that they just created a video of Hodgson asserting his six-yr extension on a unending loop.
Sabres, Hodgson sidestep the bridge contract, sign six-year extension
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