hamzarocks
Registered User
Nylander isn't "best in the league player"That is somewhat skewed by the fact that two of them are two of the newest contracts (and Nylander wasn't anywhere close to top 10 previously). The other two are leftovers from the previous GM, and we're stuck with them for this year. By this time next year one of them will be signed for much less (if at all), and the other will (hopefully) be signed by another team. Even if there aren't enough new contracts to push Nylander out of the top 10, it will then be a matter of two (of the best players in the league) in the top ten.
I agree that injuries can be a potential problem, but the top three Leafs on that list have missed 20, 4, and 7 games respectively over the last three years (regular season and playoffs) for a total of 31 out of 813 games.
Yes, the salary situation is ugly, but (hopefully) for only one final year of the Dubas disaster.
He isnt a top 15 in the league based of his 98 pt year last season only
He is usually a fringe top 30 player in the league.
We are overpaying/banking on 29-36 year Nylander being better than 22-27 year nylander which likely wont happen for too long
The contract will suck likely from tommorrow as he isnt likely to get 98 pts again and now commands 11.5M AAV.
Not having marner at 12-13M will help if the cap is used well to get strong supporting players in top 9 and top 4D
Nylander has a contract he isnt a capable player of living upto. He's never outside of his first 45 or so games last year shown to be a guy you can have as a top 3 player on your team and win a cup with.
He isnt a Panarin, Kaprizov, Rantanen, Tkachuk level winger, who along with Pasta & Kuch are the only wingers who should be making 11M+