I'd pay to see what he can get on the open market. Willie getting $11.5m makes me want to puke as much as Mitch getting $10.9m 5 years ago did. It will be deja vu if the Leafs pay Marner more than Willie. At that point I hope they sell lots of jerseys for Pelley.
So its negotiating time, will he take 11+ and leave, or settle for 11 and stay?
Easy first rounds are a big boost but can be tricky to find. Dallas finished first in the West and had the hardest path.
I don’t think 11 is enough to stay in the Leafs market. It’s up to him, but I wouldn’t blame him for leaving if that’s the offer.
Boston intentionally fell to 2nd last year to give themselves a chance at winning a round and hope that TB could upset FL, which was a ticket to the SCF.
I’d just go with the advantage he wants to stay here. He claims he does. If the guy truly is a fan and wants to play for us and he already lives here , there is no way he leaves for less than a 10% raise. If he does, well than he wasn’t a real fan anyway and just chasing the cash.
He may want to stay, but it just costs more as the discount horse left the ranch yrs ago.
Well good luck to him, but not when he is playing against us. lol! He isn’t worth a penny more than 11. He can determine the length of the deal 1to 8 years. I’d offer as much as allowed as a signing bonus and front loaded. It would be interesting to see another team top that offer.
He’s worth what he’ll get. Most other markets can simply say it’s not Toronto. That’s a big selling point.
$11m is not enough to stay here after he milked the Leafs for $66m and shit the bed every April? I'd applaud him if he turned down $11m and left.
Exactly he knows he robbed us on the RFA deal and that’s also the only reason I’d give him the 11. After all offering less than he currently makes would be a nonstarter.
He’s making 11 million AAV this year and you’ think he’d stay for the same?
And, IMHO, even $9M is TOO MUCH.
Yup. I'd sign him at the right number but what I think and he thinks is the right number are miles apart. As you say, they should have traded him. Now they are left with overpaying to keep him or walking for nothing. You know they do not have the stomach to let him walk for nothing so they will repeat the same mistake they made with Willie. At that point, I have to force myself to get off this trainwreck.
Not trading him isn’t really a big deal after all I think we would get a lesser player back anyway. Trading him for picks and using the 11 million on UFA’s would be better but that is the gamble
I'm already OFF this train wreak.
We could have been brutal with him but we weren’t. What did we buy for the 66 million 1 UFA year. lol! We were robbed if he doesn’t realize that somebody should explain it. What were his options? Play year to year for 4 years on an arbitrators decision or go to the KHL. We were more than fair with him, time to reciprocate or move on.
He signed the deal that was negotiated just like the rest.
That’s great, if he feels he owes us nothing I have no animosity as you said it was negotiated. New round upcoming and I feel it’s a safe bet nobody is topping 11 million upfront as a signing bonus, I may listen to the NMC conditions… lol!
It’s an even bigger gamble with Treliving at the helm. He’s setting up to waste the Cowan years, if Cowan actually turns out as hoped.
He'll still need security and a good PR staff but taking a discount would go a long way to buying some goodwill from some of the fans who want him gone for as little as a bag of pucks.
We don't know what he 'feels' but he obviously slots in a bit above Nylander.
Unlike Mitch who probably thinks he owes us nothing, we are rewarding William because maybe he outperformed his past contract. Thankyou William good job.
