The Pens have re-signed James Neal to a six-year contract for $30 million. He'll have a cap hit of $5 million per year.
A cap number of $5 million puts him in the same category as the following forwards:
Ryan Kesler
Mike Ribeiro
Tomas Plekanec
Brian Gionta
Martin Havlat
Patrice Bergeron
Now, I don't know about you, but I don't think I'd take any of those guys over James Neal at this point. If they Pens didn't have Jordan Staal, then you could make the argument that you'd rather have Kesler, but other than that... no way, no how.
This was a great move by Ray Shero at a good cap number.
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