With or without Matthews seats are being filled in Toronto and on the road.
Agreed & I think he will use it & ultimately walk unless we overpay to his satisfaction. And I thought WN was a mercenary...this guy puts him to shame....
I always thought he’d be a great fit in Vegas, but l’m not sure they need him or how they could fit him in.
No, @Mess is correct. MacKinnon is one of the top-3 centers on the planet, just won a Cup, and could easily have demanded 14 mil a year x 4. Were the Avs going to say, "No, you just helped win us a Cup, are our number one center, but we're not going to pay you that?" Of course not. Instead, he signed for 100k over McDavid and committed to 8 years to presumably finish his career as an Av. This was his way of "moving the contracts forward" for the rest of the players (by 100k) while also giving his team a nice discount and committing to them long-term with a team-friendly deal.
We would all be ok with Mac's cap percentage x 8.
Crazy not to....that tells you right there he should be gone. He cares little for team.
agreed, I’d be fine giving him a slight bump. 13.5x8 is still fine with me
Look at the management, the coaching, the deals they’ve made this summer, the media, the hassle of living in the city… wouldn’t you ask for more?
I agree. The other problem is Chicago getting either our first pick next year (top 10 protected), or our unprotected one in ‘26. So if we were to trade them, we would surely be giving up a fairly high pick, unfortunately. But it does indeed piss me off that it appears these prima donnas have no intent of leaving anything on the table.
Yup, I just can’t understand how some posters on here think they’re getting paid what they deserve. To me, they’re all about themselves and the money, def not the team! And Shanahan is just as much to blame. I believe he is the one who has sheltered and pampered them.
What planet are you on? MacKinnon could have demanded, and gotten, much more. Can you imagine a player, who will have made a boatload of money over his career, actually leaving some money on the table in order to help his team out? SMH!!!
Yup, one of the best in the regular season, can’t argue that. The playoffs, that’s another story.
You forgot to include Stanley Cup winner for MacKinnon. Add onto that the fact he could have gotten more than 12.6.
This is something I have noticed since his sophomore year. He has a ho-hum approach to losing and lacks any type of intensity or anger when he, or his teammates, are being pushed around. Other stars like MacKinnon, Crosby, even Stamkos, don't show this type of indifference. And, yes, this is a problem. And there could be a correlation between said body language and his inability to level up in the playoffs when the games get more intense and nasty.
Yeah I can't stand the way the guy sulks. If he doesn't get to play his way it's time to mope around the ice then look sad on the bench after his shift. It's absolutely related to his playoff performances. He's just a low-key guy. Not a leader. A touch of that Getzlaf edge would do wonders for him and our team - he's got the physical tools to be that presence, but no fire. Oh well.
So McDavid signed under a lower cap as a lesser player than he is now, took one of the biggest discounts in cap era history, and hasn't re-signed in that time, and he still makes more over that time than Matthews. If McDavid signed at the same time as Matthews, without the discount, he would make 13.7m more than Matthews over that time.
I hope I would be a better team player. The TML didn't set up the salary cap. Bettman did to help out US teams and it worked. No Canadian teams have won for 30 years. Asking more with a cap hurts the ability to win. Put 100m$ in my bank or 110m$ is not going to affect my life as much as a cup on the shelf.
Does he care enough about winning the Cup?
You don't blame him so to punish TML management for past failures, I get that, but to do that he punishes, his team mates today, and the fans.
