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Michael Bunting: No contract negotiations have taken place with Toronto Maple Leafs | TSN

Pending unrestricted free agent Michael Bunting said Monday he did not hold any contract talks with the Toronto Maple Leafs on an extension this season.
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Pending unrestricted free agent Michael Bunting said Monday he did not hold any contract talks with the Toronto Maple Leafs on an extension this season.

The 27-year-old winger is currently set to hit the open market on July 1 as the two-year, $1.9 million contract he joined the Maple Leafs on in 2021 expires.

He added Monday that he has not thought about his contract situation since the Maple Leafs' season came to an end in Game 5 against the Florida Panthers on Friday.



Bunting had 23 goals and 49 points in 82 games during the regular season, adding one goal and an assist in seven playoff games. He missed three games during Toronto's first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning due to a suspension for an illegal check to the head and sat an additional game as a healthy scratch.

A fourth-round pick of the Arizona Coyotes in 2014, Bunting has 57 goals and 126 points over 182 career NHL games with the Coyotes and Maple Leafs.

He also posted 23 goals, and tallied 63 points, in 79 games last season.
 
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Tak7 said:
Post-Mortem Monday: Morgan Rielly

*Feeling is all too familiar, but every year, feels just a little bit different.

*says every year you want progress and improvement, individually and as a team. says he does feel that there was improvement this year, but points out that they are in the same spot as usual, so it's hard to dissect that.

*says the hardest part is that he thinks there was a pathway forward through the teams remaining this year. Says when you turn the TV on and see teams still competing for the cup, the emotions kick in and makes the loss tough.

*Disappointed with outcome of Florida series. Credits Panthers for being opportunistic, but says team lacked a lot of stuff, which is why they are standing here.

*Hard to pinpoint what they lacked. Felt the moves Dubas made at the deadline were great. Very hard to identify what they lacked right now, and says it wasn't just one or two things.

*Believes in the core, and thinks everyone else should too. Highlights that we are standing here today talking after losing, so doesn't want to have blind faith & trust in the core. But says there are reasons to still believe in this group.

*Says regular season, and at times in playoffs, and speaking to his teammates after the loss, fuel his belief. Results are all that matters, but his personal belief is that he believes in them.

*Wants to take time to reflect on his own personal season. Says now is a time to think about the team, and what they could have done differently.

*Thinks the world of Kyle. Says what he did for the team this year, from training camp, to deadline, to day, calls him a world class GM. Everything that he did was in the team's best interest, and put team in position to play, and win, and succeed. Ultimately, players were the ones on the ice at the end of the season
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Thanks for posting it. Can't get any stream to work.
 
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QJo said:
I don't mind if your schedule was different than ours. I think it's off-putting for people to imply that they didn't waste their time watching entertainment like we did because it ultimately didn't end in success.
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I'm just reinforcing my feelings towards this version (The Dubas Era) of the Toronto Maple Leafs. I'm sorry if you think I'm wrong on this, but here we are arguing with one a other during locker clean out (post a 2nd round beat down).
 
hockeywiz542 said:
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Michael Bunting: No contract negotiations have taken place with Toronto Maple Leafs | TSN

Pending unrestricted free agent Michael Bunting said Monday he did not hold any contract talks with the Toronto Maple Leafs on an extension this season.
www.tsn.ca www.tsn.ca

Pending unrestricted free agent Michael Bunting said Monday he did not hold any contract talks with the Toronto Maple Leafs on an extension this season.

The 27-year-old winger is currently set to hit the open market on July 1 as the two-year, $1.9 million contract he joined the Maple Leafs on in 2021 expires.

He added Monday that he has not thought about his contract situation since the Maple Leafs' season came to an end in Game 5 against the Florida Panthers on Friday.



Bunting had 23 goals and 49 points in 82 games during the regular season, adding one goal and an assist in seven playoff games. He missed three games during Toronto's first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning due to a suspension for an illegal check to the head and sat an additional game as a healthy scratch.

A fourth-round pick of the Arizona Coyotes in 2014, Bunting has 57 goals and 126 points over 182 career NHL games with the Coyotes and Maple Leafs.

He also posted 23 goals, and tallied 63 points, in 79 games last season.
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I'd re-sign him if he is willing to take a huge hometown discount... he is far from useless, and with another skilled player, he could make up an excellent third line.

I'd want Jarnkrok money or less for him.
 
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Gabriel426 said:
ROR sound bites are interesting. Really hoping he will be back bc he can change the culture of the team.

Acciari will most likely be back as long as he gets a contract around 1.5-1.8 and give him a year or two more.
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I one can change the culture of this team except the GM, by launching the one do the two guys who run the room and decide who coach is - Marner.

They’ve brought in vet after vet and their effort and give a shit meter never changes because those two and the loser captain rule the roost
 
JT to Vancouver is actually not as far fetched as some might think. Aqualini, their owner wants a winning team, want big buzz around the team to sell tickets, want their leader to be more political, their MGT mindset is to build a team with vets instead of drafting and development, and they do have a guy on the team that can be available.
JT for JT and Garland(due to cap) makes sense bc they get a 1C and save close to 2mil on the cap.
 
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Just Rude said:
Extend Matthews.
Wait for JT to play out his last two years.
Sign McJesus three summers from now.

Welcome to the McMatthews era.
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McDavid pull Matthews aside and say you need to stay put in Toronto. You'll know why when the time comes Stachews. I can't even imagine McDavid Matthews and Nylander with a solid 1D and Woll with a few years under the belt.
 
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McDavid pull Matthews aside and say you need to stay put in Toronto. You'll know why when the time comes Stachews. I can't even imagine McDavid Matthews and Nylander with a solid 1D and Woll with a few years under the belt.
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Cups + Profit.
 
Racer88 said:
Anything good out of the presser or just another waste of time?
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Matthews statement of wanting extension done before July is news. Other then that par for the course, wouldn't expect anything more from it though. Dubas and Keefe still to come, that should be slightly more interesting, but not much. Expect the usual platitudes.

The shoe to drop is the Shanny statement/presser still to come some time in the relatively near future.
 
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So Matty said he wants to be back and sign an extension before the start of the season….

That’s basically it then. If he can get signed then you go from there. See if u can lock willy up and if not trade him.
 
Ronellis said:
my guess is something changed this morning - i.e. someone told Dubas something and whatever Dubas thought he was going to talk about is no longer on the table. What else explains a 45 minute delay?
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I've seen sometimes big pharma firms and politicians use this tactic where they will delay the presser but end at the initially decided time so there are less questions posed.

not saying thats what they are doing but may be possible that was the tactic :dunno:
 
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