Weekes: Leafs nearing $5M AAV deal for Tanev

[Bizzare]

Oh, this is not good. I'd take like 3.5 at 6 or 7 with the caveat that he retires after 3. Front load the thing and have him sail off into the sunset on his duct tape boat.

So you would take a deal that blatantly circumvents the cap.

 

[Barnaby]

Oh, this is not good. I'd take like 3.5 at 6 or 7 with the caveat that he retires after 3. Front load the thing and have him sail off into the sunset on his duct tape boat.

Yea, that ain’t it.

 

[Captain Mountain]

If this is a 2 year deal, it's great.

If it's a 3 year deal, it's good to ok.

If it's a 4 year deal, it's maybe not the best, but tolerable.

Anything beyond that I suspect is soemthing they're going to regret.... and honestly, wouldn't make sense. If you're going to lock him up to a deal that takes him to 38-39, why not lock him up to 41 with some backdiving / LTIR years??

That being said assuming this comes to fruition... will be interesting to see what the Leafs do with the $8m in space remaining.

How many D do you think hold up in their mid 30s?

 

[StreetHawk]

Tyler Myers from what would have been tanev’s draft year in 2008 got 3x3.

Figure with Tanev he’d push for 4 years. Yesterday it was going at like 6 years at $4 mill per.

 

[Breakers]

Tanev is worth the AAV

but if he gets 4 or higher AAV, his agent deserves the noble peace prize

The mileage and style of play just wont work

 

[Toronto makebeleifs]

So you would take a deal that blatantly circumvents the cap.

Wouldn't you? It's within the rules, the leafs have to use the advantage of infinite money. Signing bonuses are fine in the cba, do a 15% drop-off each year in salary and it's legit(ish).

 

[Bizzare]

Wouldn't you? It's within the rules, the leafs have to use the advantage of infinite money. Signing bonuses are fine in the cba, do a 15% drop-off each year in salary and it's legit(ish).

It’s not within the rules, but sure.

 

[Rowlet]

Wouldn't you? It's within the rules, the leafs have to use the advantage of infinite money. Signing bonuses are fine in the cba, do a 15% drop-off each year in salary and it's legit(ish).

It's not within the rules, the last year of the contract can't pay less than 50% of the highest paying year.

 

[belair]

It’s really not as big a deal as some of y’all are acting - if Tanev is healthy, he’s super valuable.

If he’s not, he goes on LtIR.

But he’s not gonna just suck.

He generally plays through his injuries though. I like the player for Toronto, but the contract has to make sense.

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Yuck. Better be a 2 year deal.

 

[sxvnert]

Weekes is totally a trustworthy source.

 

[Sideline]

Anything longer than 3 years will look awful on the back end.

 

[Toronto makebeleifs]

It’s not within the rules, but sure.

If he expressly says that his intent is to retire, sure. It's collusion and circumventing. Anyone that has watched tanev play is probably confident in seeing he might have 2-3 years left if he wants a quality of life after hockey. What's the difference if he's at 5 and ends up on ltir for 2 years (Ala muzzin) vs my suggestion? Sad to say, but if he does break down, the ltir relief better at 5m for the leafs anyways.

 

[mrdomino]

Weekes is totally a trustworthy source.

This but unironically, yes

News being what you don't want to hear doesn't make it any less legitimate

 

[Rowlet]

If he expressly says that his intent is to retire, sure. It's collusion and circumventing. Anyone that has watched tanev play is probably confident in seeing he might have 2-3 years left if he wants a quality of life after hockey. What's the difference if he's at 5 and ends up on ltir for 2 years (Ala muzzin) vs my suggestion? Sad to say, but if he does break down, the ltir relief better at 5m for the leafs anyways.

You can't front load anymore, the most you can do is a 50% drop, if he retires early he's leaving 3m+ on the table per year at least.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Yea, Tre, Tanev will solve your scoring issues in the playoffs. What a moron!

 

[Toronto makebeleifs]

It's not within the rules, the last year of the contract can't pay less than 50% of the highest paying year.

uh huh, I am aware. You set the signing bonuses higher in the front end and scale up yearly salary each year to cover the gap. The leafs literally have the Tavares contract that does that NOW.

 

[Fraser28]

$5M is way too much. Glad the Canucks didn’t pay that.

 

[Diamonddog01]

I think this ends up 5 x 5.

 

[Donuts]

Good for tanev

 

[ghostingtaro]

tanev is going to get paid, hes also made of glass

 

[Captain34]

Brad is living up to his reputation -- overpaying on both term and dollar to unrestricted free agents.

 

[Michoulicious]

5?¿????? Wtf

 

[Viggo Mortensen]

That would be an amazing deal, but not better than the Jeff Finger one.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Tanev instantly makes their Blueline better. Shocked Dallas didn't resign him.