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Cmon_WTF
Is that...cabbage?
honestly, it's impossible to know barring a trade to a non-stacked team. You might be right that on a lesser team, he wouldnt have the production. That's likely true for just about anyone not named Joe Thornton.
However, Don't forget that pavs is young, relatively speaking. he's 26, and in just his 4th full NHL season. He's no baby rookie anymore, that's for sure, but he's also not 29 and in his prime. Patty is not a bad player, and any team would be happy to have him, just perhaps not for 6.9M, ranking him as the 18th highest paid player in the entire league. He's been worth that kind of money once or twice in his career (last year he was worth it particularly vs. chicago, and maybe 06-07 and possibly 05-6, but that's pushing it). He's only had one 40 goal season in his entire career (last year), so he's hardly an elite player and he's only performed up that kind of salary a couple times in his 13 years career and he's had a lot of disaster years like 07-08 and this year where he's not worth 4 million.
If pavs got 7M, he'd be a horrible investment and I'd clamor to get rid of him. However, the salary difference and cap hit difference means that they have to be judged on different scales.
Simply put, patty has never been anywhere near as dominant and jumbo or heater throughout his career, yet earns nearly the same salary (within 600k of each).
The real test will be to see what happens when pavs gets healthy. if he comes back and they continue to get shut out regularly, then that answers the question. If he comes back and ignites the offense, then there yah go. We'll see...
Braun was called up today, that is by far the biggest step in curing the Sharks scoring wooes.