notDatsyuk
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- Jul 20, 2018
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Yes, people were talking about it - I guess that's proof that it is real. Btw, did you know that the earth is flat?Tavares had a bunch of meetings with those interested teams and he chose the Leafs. He was being wooed tenaciously with fancy presentations, etc.. People were following it very closely...you could google it.
Longer term does not mean lower AAV when we're talking about buying prime UFA years for star players...so you're telling me Matthews would have settled for Eichel's $10 million AAV for 8 years? At $11.634 million AAV, a reasonable deal at the time would have been an 8 year term for Matthews...for 5 years, Matthews got everything. Dubas literally rocked the GM boat with that contract, and there were agents talking about how Matthews got everything. Marchand even trolled that Marner should get $12 million, and ironically $10.9 million AAV on a 6 year term is around McDavid money on an 8 year term. It's incredible that Dubas conceded everything.
It's quite obvious Dubious didn't value Nylander in the same light as Matthews and Marner, and he was the first to sign among the Leaf RFA's, so he didn't have as much leverage...no way he would have accepted that deal if he knew what Matthews and Marner would have gotten, though he was still overpaid for the term at the time...he just wasn't as overpaid as Matthews and Marner.
Of course Dubas didn't value Nylander as much as Matthews and Marner, and probably still doesn't. Which is why Willy had to fight to get even the underpayment he did. Thanks for proving my point again.
Because Marchand tried to cause trouble for the Leafs by saying Mitch should have be paid more than Matty, you think he's the authority you should quote?