An American court stole a million from the Chelyabinsk star of Nashville! Romanov in New York will also be thrown?

Canadian portal sportsnethowever, thinks otherwise:

— The Predators forward won an arbitration case on Friday, securing a two-year, $3.4 million contract. Trenin, 25, set personal bests last season with 17 goals and 24 points in 80 regular season games and three goals in four playoff games. The Chelyabinsk player, drafted 55th overall by Nashville in the second round of the 2015 Draft, scored 41 (24 assists, 17) points in 146 games over three seasons with the Predators.

However, fans strongly disagree with this. When asked online if you think this deal is good for Nashville, 95 percent said yes. sportsnet fell into a clear five percent minority.

Here are the arguments of the “predator” fans:

– An excellent contract for a potential sniper with 20 goals. Bravo, Nashville!

– Just the right amount. Gives the Predators space under the salary cap for another major acquisition, and Trenin has a promising outlook.

– The Predators sued the Wishlist for two years for $1.35 million, and the player wanted a strictly season for $2.4 million. As a result, the club received the required two years with a salary of only 25 percent more than expected. A complete triumph for Nashville!

– Two seasons on the cheap for a man who scored 17 goals – a great deal.

Yakov himself, in an interview with RB Sport, did not hide his disappointment:

– I’m not happy with the decision! I think we lost the case. Both we and the club had a comparison with a hockey player who was given 1.8 million for two years. Our statistics are almost the same. But I have a better game in defense and in the minority, a power game. Because it is strange that they awarded less than him. In general, I’m upset. I didn’t want to bring it to arbitration, but it turned out that they brought it and even lost.

We will not find out who this Mr. X with a fee of 1.8 million dollars is. The side of the Russian, in principle, could refer to the Canadian teammate. A certain 28-year-old Colton Sissons has already played three seasons for $ 2.857 million, and there are still four years ahead. At the same time, the forward for eight championships in Nashville only once scored more than nine goals – 15 in 2019. In the last regular season in 79 games, he scored a miserable seven goals, and scored only four points more than the Urals – and this costs almost $ 3 million?!

Alas, you can’t argue with an independent judge. Yakov will have to stick, fight, score, lay down under the puck, fight in the blood, finally, for the 1.7 million appointed by the referee. On the other hand, this is a great incentive! In two years, Trenin will be a free agent and will be able to move to any NHL team.

An example should be taken from Omsk Ilya Mikheev. In the same 25 years, Toronto gave him even less in two seasons – 1.645 million each. However, as soon as the two-way forward tested the market this summer, Vancouver immediately pecked and raised the fee almost three times – 19 million until 2026! Or 4.75 million per season.

In a word, everything is now in the hands of the oversized damn dozen “predators”. But Alexander Romanov is in the absolute power of the hardened boss of the “islanders” Lou “The Fox” Lamorello. Arbitration is not yet available to the 22-year-old ex-soldier: how much they will give, so much will have to be taken. Or strike. It is encouraging that the New Yorkers gave the Canadiens for the Muscovite a first-round pick in the 2022 draft, which a priori guarantees a place at the base.

The only question is how old and at what price? Today, at this age, among the defensemen, only three earn more than a million dollars per season:

Quinn Hughes (Vancouver) – 7.85 million until 2027;

Rasmus Dalin (Buffalo) – 6 million until 2024;

Adam Bockvist (Columbus) – 2.6 million by 2025

If Lamorello writes Romanov an engagement in the region of two million, it will already be good.