Your thoughts on this: (I get the feeling you won't claim that about this article by Dom)
Yep. And the Leaf list has 1 guy at 30 or over (And Tavares still had 76 points in 79 games). Everyone else is 27 to 25 That Isle list has 2 guys under 30 out of 7. That's it.
Over the term of the very lucrative contracts what have the leafs accomplished?
Dude, at some you have to stop admiring teams that win a first round. leafs are set-up great.
There's no reason that spending 30m on 3 forwards would be a barrier to success, as long as you're getting value and impact out of that cap - which we are. We don't have an available defenseman worth 10m or an available goalie worth 8m, so that would just mean we'd be overpaying players and getting less value and impact from our cap space. There's no reason to think that that would make us more successful.
The proof is in the pudding. Leafs have not succeeded at anything outside some regular season success. A shake up of the 3 forwards would help...Still say had Tavares not been signed the leafs would have been a team to worry about. That contract was the demise of the leafs.
Had they signed between 8 and 9 they would have both been considered top end contracts under $10 million. Marner is good but way over-rated. I would take any of the top end value contracts over Marner's. No questioning those players bring much more to the success of a team regular/post season.
How does Eichel's contract make sense? He's almost 26 and 0 playoff games played.He's had 1 elite regular season. Marner needs to be switched with him. And not sure Doughty's does now,
Rather have Tavares right now than Doughty TBH
The proof is not in the pudding. Just because we've lost a few series, that doesn't mean we've lost a few series because of cap allocation. You're applying that causation based on nothing because you want it to be true. Teams win and lose all the time with all sorts of different cap allocations, builds, playstyles, etc. The most important thing is getting value from your cap expenditure, and we do, which is why we're one of the best teams in the league.
It wouldn't though. Matthews/Marner, despite being high paid, bring some of the most surplus value on the team, and are a massive part of why we are so good. The overwhelmingly most likely outcome of trading them is us getting worse in the present and future. Tavares brings a lesser surplus value than Matthews/Marner, but he is still a positive and still brings significant impact to our team. And regardless of what you personally think of him, the fact is he is going nowhere. He has a NMC and he wants to be here. He's not going to uproot himself and his family from the place he took less money and abuse to come to, just because some Leafs fans get antsy and blame him for the realities of an unexpected global pandemic-induced flat cap.
We're a team to worry about with Tavares. We have one of the best chances at a cup this year.
This is all over the place and wrong. You have players in the "over 10m that make sense" and "top end value contracts under 10m" that are clear negatives relative to their cap hits, and you have players in the "overpaid 10m contracts" that are clear positives relative to their cap hits. Matthews//Marner bring more value and impact relative to their cap hits than most players here, and any that bring more than them aren't being traded, so they're irrelevant to what we can do. This isn't a grocery store where you can just go to the 10m+ defenseman and 8m+ goaltender aisles and pick one up that brings equivalent or even similar surplus value to Matthews/Marner.
How many would be too many - could we have 6 forwards at over $10M each with the rest of the roster filled out at 750k a piece?
There is no way Eichel is better than Marner at this point
We're probably at our limit now based on current cap and stagnation. If you had six 10m+ forwards, you'd have difficulty filling out an effective team (especially on defense - I don't know where you'd get a bunch of top pairing or top-4 defensemen for 750k), and there isn't really enough space on the roster or ice time to go around to get full value out of 6 elite forwards.
Leafs could get 8.75 giordanos for the same price if we are going to play these dumb games. We could fill the defensive roster and have money back. 5.6mm for the whole defensive core. That and the excess cap would fill the cap by over 18mm and allow them to sign McDavid easily. Dubas is so dumb!
What they have is the perfect amount. Of course if they had more or less that would also be the perfect amount.
