Confirmed with Link: Leafs acquire Darren Raddysh for 2026 5th | Raddysh signs, 8 years, $8.5M AAV

[ER89]

writing was on the wall with this one and will be interesting to see how he does but hope there isn't a NMC cause i'm still not buying what they are selling. To many years at this point. piling onto a faulty foundation imo

In order to be a middle of the pack team, leafs need all (if not most) of this to happen:

• Raddysh to be the player he was last year (not the one he's been the rest of his career)
• Tanev to be healthy and return to form
• Matthews to be health and return to form
• JT to maintain production
• Rely on a rookie to produce at a top 6 rate if not better
• One of three goalies who have never been able to be starters to be a starter

Optimistic take, not having your next 2 first makes it ok to be a treadmill team for a bit longer and maybe Matthews improves his value and trade him at deadline of 2027 / 28 season.

If all that happens the leafs finish top 5-10 in the nhl not a middling team lmao.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Last year he was set to make 14 total in his career (assuming 8 years more)

Now it’s 73 million

 

[Buckley]

There is going to be trade protection.. .he wants to be in Toronto.

He's from Toronto. His Dad passed last year, and his Mom is in Toronto. His GF is from Toronto... he doesn't want to be anywhere else.

Agreed, except that I think the girlfriend is now a wife, so the point is even more relevant.

 

[NJG]

 

[wallsailor]

writing was on the wall with this one and will be interesting to see how he does but hope there isn't a NMC cause i'm still not buying what they are selling. To many years at this point. piling onto a faulty foundation imo

In order to be a middle of the pack team, leafs need all (if not most) of this to happen:

• Raddysh to be the player he was last year (not the one he's been the rest of his career)
• Tanev to be healthy and return to form
• Matthews to be health and return to form
• JT to maintain production
• Rely on a rookie to produce at a top 6 rate if not better
• One of three goalies who have never been able to be starters to be a starter

Optimistic take, not having your next 2 first makes it ok to be a treadmill team for a bit longer and maybe Matthews improves his value and trade him at deadline of 2027 / 28 season.

don't need a starter, need a tandem.
No goalie can play all games. Could be seen again and again in the last playoffs.

 

[Zybalto]

There has to be at least some kind of trade protection no?

 

[Divine]

 

[Buckley]

I'm not shitting all over anything. I was responding to a person that said they would "bury" the second half of the contract. I merely asked how do you bury an $8.5 million cap hit.

It's a fair response to what he said, not sure why you're getting upset about this.

The idea of planning this far ahead in sports is foolish. Time and again, teams are pretty easily able to get out of contracts they don't want. In 5 years, this contract will be pretty far down the salary list for Toronto (behind Matthews, Nylander, Mckenna and every other significant player Toronto acquires over that period). If, in year 6 of the contract, the Leafs want to move it, they will be able to do so, even if they have to attach an asset to get it done. No one will care if along the way they have won a Cup.

 

[TheRumble]

I know people are going to mock my post, but I've heard rumblings from people closer to the McDavid circle that he wants to be in Toronto next year if Oilers flop (which I expect they will).

Let it be known that if McDavid signs here next year I will buy this man an item of his choice up to $500 or the the mods can ban me 4 life.

 

[wallsailor]

How do they bury the last years of the contract? How do you bury an $8.5 million cap hit?

at that time the cap hit means nothing

 

[colchar]

I'm a Raddysh fan but this a very stupid way to look at it, no competent organization on earth "doesn't care" about the second HALF of a 68m contract and says to themselves "we'll just bury it". That's not how smart teams do business, horrible take.

I hope he performs for every single year of that contract but the concerns about term are perfectly valid.

He can retire, be sent to Robidas Island, etc. There are ways to deal with the final years of that contract that are of no concern right now.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Let it be known that if McDavid signs here next year I will buy this man an item of his choice up to $500 or the the mods can ban me 4 life.

lol

 

[colchar]

How do they bury the last years of the contract? How do you bury an $8.5 million cap hit?

Retirement, Robidas Island, etc.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

at that time the cap hit means nothing

Is this trolling ?

 

[Stephen]

Which could also be why they don't want to sink 8 years into a 30 year old D.

I think the opposite which is they may want to hold the band together and replicate as much as they can while Kucherov is in his window. They are in for a forever rebuild when this party is over.

 

[ToneDog]

He can retire, be sent to Robidas Island, etc. There are ways to deal with the final years of that contract that are of no concern right now.

We will see this in technicolor with how they deal with the second half of Rielly"s contract.

 

[disgruntleddave]

I just hope that he doesn't get infected and turns soft once he gets here. We need more guys with big balls, still have to add.

 

[joepeps]

lol sounds about right.

 

[Dark Phoenix]

This contract isn't going to end well... I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't START well...

 

[SprDaVE]

Chayka has tracked his since his days in Erie.... good lord lol

 

[A1LeafNation]

Leafs have a top 5 PP again?

Knies
McKenna Matthews
Raddysh Nylander

 

[AvroArrow]

Chayka has tracked his since his days in Erie.... good lord lol

Heard Raddysh and McDavid are good friends

 

[LaPlante94]

This contract isn't going to end well... I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't START well...

How so? It's like 8.1% of the cap next season and then will be 7.4% the season after that and then keep decreasing. More expansions by the end of the contract so cap could be more than 130 million before his contract ends. This contract will be nothing in like 4-5 years.

 

[Divine]

Tampa Bay going to regret putting this on their YouTube with Leafs fans thanking them for it now

 

[Crazy Monkey]

Let it be known that if McDavid signs here next year I will buy this man an item of his choice up to $500 or the the mods can ban me 4 life.

Lol bookmarked for future reference