In the first transaction of the year, the Winter Claassics drop Martin Erat and add Mason Raymond. (edit: the answer to my rhetorical question from earlier is "almost exactly 1.5 hours" - G.)
Not much to say here. Erat is averaging like 7 minutes per night. Raymond has 4 points and looks rejuvenated and sort of pissed off. Even if MayRay fails to keep up his torrid pace.... he was going to outscore Erat.
Fun fact: On January 5, 2012, the Mackhawks traded Teemu Selanne to the Dicklas Lidstroms for Martin Erat and the Keeper League almost imploded.
Between January 6, 2012 and the end of the regular season, Erat actually outscored Selanne, 36 points to 30, meaning that Dickie came out the loser on that trade that year, and we lost our collective shit over nothing.
Last year they both had 24 points each, in 45 games (Erat) and 46 games (Selanne).
Hilarious historical note there. The Caps are paying Erat $4.5m to play on the 4th line? That makes as much sense as Mayray being fifth in scoring.
ReplyDeleteIt makes no sense. I was really pleased with grabbing him, as I thought he would likely be playing the Grabovski powerplay role and eating up all those easy points with Ovie. Total bust of a draft pick. Chris Kreider-esque really.
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