$10,000,000.13 worth
The collosal headache known as Marian Gaborik may soon be over for Minnesota.
My guess is that Minnesota will likely try trade or sign the delicate Czech before the season gets too far under way.
Basically this fragile little waif has been unable to play a full season his entire career. He did play all but one game in 2002-2003, but he has only been in the league for seven full seasons, and he has missed more than 11 games due to injury in four of the seven, add to this that he starts out the season being injured.
His worst season was two years ago where he missed 34 games due to mysterious upper body / groin injuries.
Using history as our guide, a player who is only 26 years old missing this many injury games generally points to one or more of the following reasons:
A. The player is very poorly conditioned, so when game action starts their body is so out of shape it is much more likely to be easily damaged.
B. The player has some sort of chronic problem that affects them most / if not all of the time (Mario Lemieux is a good example).
C. The player is pretending to be injured because they don't want to play for the team they are on.
D. The player starts thinking they are a bigger star than they are, and start thinking that they should be treated differently, with more respect, extra benefits.
When they don't get them, they 'protest' by discovering a phantom knee injury, or the ever-mysterious 'upper body' injury.
Added to Gaborik's pathetic tale is that he (supposedly) turned down a 10 year 8 million dollars per annum offer. If this is true, then he wants to test out the free agent market at the end of the season. All fingers point to this being the case.
Hopefully no owner/president is stupid enough to shell out near crosby/ovechkin money for a player who doesn't have even close to the same amount of grit, talent, drive, or conditioning that an elite player in this league should have.
If he did turn down an 80 million dollar offer, that could possibly make him either the stupidest player in the NHL, or the player in the league with the worst agent.
The unfortunate reality in today's NHL however is that a ten million dollar talent with a ten-cent brain and three-cents worth of fortitude still write a pretty good ticket.
My guess is that Minnesota will likely try trade or sign the delicate Czech before the season gets too far under way.
Basically this fragile little waif has been unable to play a full season his entire career. He did play all but one game in 2002-2003, but he has only been in the league for seven full seasons, and he has missed more than 11 games due to injury in four of the seven, add to this that he starts out the season being injured.
His worst season was two years ago where he missed 34 games due to mysterious upper body / groin injuries.
Using history as our guide, a player who is only 26 years old missing this many injury games generally points to one or more of the following reasons:
A. The player is very poorly conditioned, so when game action starts their body is so out of shape it is much more likely to be easily damaged.
B. The player has some sort of chronic problem that affects them most / if not all of the time (Mario Lemieux is a good example).
C. The player is pretending to be injured because they don't want to play for the team they are on.
D. The player starts thinking they are a bigger star than they are, and start thinking that they should be treated differently, with more respect, extra benefits.
When they don't get them, they 'protest' by discovering a phantom knee injury, or the ever-mysterious 'upper body' injury.
Added to Gaborik's pathetic tale is that he (supposedly) turned down a 10 year 8 million dollars per annum offer. If this is true, then he wants to test out the free agent market at the end of the season. All fingers point to this being the case.
Hopefully no owner/president is stupid enough to shell out near crosby/ovechkin money for a player who doesn't have even close to the same amount of grit, talent, drive, or conditioning that an elite player in this league should have.
If he did turn down an 80 million dollar offer, that could possibly make him either the stupidest player in the NHL, or the player in the league with the worst agent.
The unfortunate reality in today's NHL however is that a ten million dollar talent with a ten-cent brain and three-cents worth of fortitude still write a pretty good ticket.
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