BankStreetParade
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Fair enough.You get a big AHL contract for playing in the league for a while, doesn't really matter how good you are. Pretty much a reward to staying in the AHL rather than heading overseas.
AHL vets get the 300ishk contracts, Sokolov can be considered a vet heaqding into his 5th fulltime season.
Guys like Alex Grant got 275k and 300k after 4 and 5 years, Clark Bishop making 275k, O'Dell got 300k after 4 AHL seasons of similar production. Those types of players get the big AHL contracts, doesn't need to be high level players, because usually those high level AHL players are in the NHL.
I guess my point is more along the lines of "if you're going to give that kind of money to an AHLer, why not go shopping for an impact guy?"
I don't have any problem with overpaying high-performing AHLers but I just don't see it in the stats to give this guy that kind of money and make him a fixture of the club next year.