Confirmed with Link: Leafs sign Simmonds to a 2 year extension (900k AAV)

[Nylander88]

Great question. I'm also not sure how Simmonds has the nerve to believe he's worth more than Spezza

Different ages. Different players. Different stages of their careers. Spezza was superstar calibre and is 5 years older than Simmonds. Simmonds plays a much harder game, and therefore likely has a much shorter career runway financially (Simmonds won't be playing at Spezza's age). Spezza has made crap tons more money over his career than Simmonds has. These guys still have families at the end of the day. And people are getting bent out of shape over 150,000? It's not him thinking he's worth more. That's a ridiculous and narrow minded statement.

 

[BayStBullies]

Dubas lol

realgoodleafs lol

 

[PromisedLand]

Trust me, you don't want "Money Mitch" playing like Wayne Simmonds at his size. I think producing in crucial games would benefit Marner though, as well as the Leafs.

Did you look at how Point, Kucherov and other tampa forwards play? They aren't any different than marner in terms of height actually they are shorter except they take their summer training program seriously and work on their game and physique

In babcock's words they are "Gud Pros"

 

[Stephen]

Something worth noting is the Leafs planned on being more aressive with load managing Spezza last season. Apparently had made an agreement with him to sit him on back to backs, in order to keep him fresh. Early season injuries disrupted the teams injury reserve/ cap situation preventing them from doing that.

We may see them try that approach again with guys like Simmonds as well, if the cap situation allows

Curious that they had that agreement with Spezza but not Thornton when it was Thornton who really needed it.

 

[PromisedLand]

If we keep Kerfoot I'd like to see us run duos three lines deep and then fill in the blanks with the best available fits.

Hyman/Matthews/xxx
xxx/Tavares/Marner
xxx/Kerfoot/Nylander

We've seen the super line strategy fail enough. Need to spread out the wealth.

called for keefe to spread out offense and stifle habs' game plan but ofcourse.....

i knew we would suck if we did the same BS in game 7 but keefe/dubas lovers dont see it that way

GDT: - Round 1 - Game 7 | SERIES TIED | Leafs Vs Habs - May 31, 2021 @ 7:00 pm EST

 

[Captain14]

Plan the parade

 

[PromisedLand]

You guys are so dramatic lol

well....

Hyman is a UFA probably not coming back
Rielly is a pending UFA probably not re-signing
Sandin/Lily do not have much expereince
Muzzin gets injured at the time he is needed most
Dermott needs a new contract he is definitely getting qualified higher than his previous cap hit

Leafs have continued to suck under dubas and there is basically no hope

I think the situation calls for "Dramatics"

 

[ToneDog]

Great question. I'm also not sure how Simmonds has the nerve to believe he's worth more than Spezza

Is marner better than kucherov? Is Willie better than ehlers or pasta? It's what you can get that counts not whether u deserve it in Dubas' world.

 

[Leaf Fans]

Plan the parade

Again? We just did that in May.

 

[ToneDog]

Did you look at how Point, Kucherov and other tampa forwards play? They aren't any different than marner in terms of height actually they are shorter except they take their summer training program seriously and work on their game and physique

In babcock's words they are "Gud Pros"

Kutch has 30+ points in the last 2 playoffs and will probably have 2 cups and makes 1.5m less than marner who has 2 years less term. Pretty simple to see why we cant build a team that can go deep and has to shop at the Dollarama. And the Dubites worship this fool.

 

[Stonehands1990]

Did you look at how Point, Kucherov and other tampa forwards play? They aren't any different than marner in terms of height actually they are shorter except they take their summer training program seriously and work on their game and physique

In babcock's words they are "Gud Pros"

Disagree. Kucherov, Point & Kane are all pretty jacked. They love the weight room and it shows on the ice

Marner is a glorified Gudreau

 

[Stonehands1990]

Did you look at how Point, Kucherov and other tampa forwards play? They aren't any different than marner in terms of height actually they are shorter except they take their summer training program seriously and work on their game and physique

In babcock's words they are "Gud Pros"

Whoops we literally said the same thing disregard my other post

 

[rocketman588]

It's a whatever contract AAV wise. However buying term for a dude who should 100% be on league min for 1 year shows that Dubas is still pretty ass at negotiations.

How does the nuge take a mil a year less then his current contract as a pretty high scoring ufa and we're shelling out cash to this guy

 

[SeaOfBlue]

It's a whatever contract AAV wise. However buying term for a dude who should 100% be on league min for 1 year shows that Dubas is still pretty ass at negotiations.

How does the nuge take a mil a year less then his current contract as a pretty high scoring ufa and we're shelling out cash to this guy

RNH received an 8 year deal. RNH was not getting anywhere close to 6 mill regardless of where he went and he was certainly not getting an 8 year deal. EDM overpaid for him, and RNH is set for the rest of his career in a place that he played for 10 years now.

 

[cupcrazyman]

900K AAV. That's ok.

Just need to sign the other 8 guys to the same contract.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

A lack of creativity shown by what's supposed to be a forward thinking analytics GM. Re-signing an old injury prone player past his best who didn't show up in the playoffs. People can go on about an injury but it's not like there's a lack of cheap 4th line options in the NHL to try out.

 

[rocketman588]

RNH received an 8 year deal. RNH was not getting anywhere close to 6 mill regardless of where he went and he was certainly not getting an 8 year deal. EDM overpaid for him, and RNH is set for the rest of his career in a place that he played for 10 years now.

RNH received an 8 year deal. RNH was not getting anywhere close to 6 mill regardless of where he went and he was certainly not getting an 8 year deal. EDM overpaid for him, and RNH is set for the rest of his career in a place that he played for 10 years now.

He's going to make 1.7 mil less a year then Nylander and most likely make less then Hyman.

He's a ufa who signed for less then his original deal. When have we ever done that?

The oilers shrewdly paid term for a solid player to buy cap for the mcdavid years we just bought term for Wayne Simmons....

How he is getting two years of cash from this team. It's like we're a charity. We can get a better player for that contract

 

[rocketman588]

A lack of creativity shown by what's supposed to be a forward thinking analytics GM. Re-signing an old injury prone player past his best who didn't show up in the playoffs. People can go on about an injury but it's not like there's a lack of cheap 4th line options in the NHL to try out.

And he signed him for two years. Dude is just lighting mlse money on fire since we're most likely going to pay him 900k to not play hockey after this year

 

[Menzinger]

Curious that they had that agreement with Spezza but not Thornton when it was Thornton who really needed it.

I suspect Spezza has a more accommodating personality. Joe seemingly wanted to sign somewhere to play as much as possible and I doubt had any interest in that

 

[saffronleaf]

I suspect Spezza has a more accommodating personality. Joe seemingly wanted to sign somewhere to play as much as possible and I doubt had any interest in that

Sadly Keefe was too accommodating to Thornton.

 

[ANDI P IS CUTE]

I think this is a good deal for Toronto. Prior to fracturing his hand and being out for 5 weeks. Simmonds had scored 5 goals in 6 games or something like that. He was showing passion and grit.

He is a player that can be moved up and down the lineup and play some PP in front of the net. I dont think its a bad deal at all.

If Dubas stops here at bringing back the vets from last season he has done well. There were really only 2 of the 4 that made any sense to bring back and he did that with Spezza and Simmonds. Bogo and Thornton shouldnt be brought back.

bogo one of our best dmen. wth are you smoking? also one that actually hits and not afraid to get it. are you drunk too?

 

[Superstar]

Plan the parade

We should be able to have the Santa Claus parade this winter...

 

[Leaf Fans]

We should be able to have the Santa Claus parade this winter...

I am not planning that- it follows the same route every year.

 

[Bluelines]

Darn, I looked too and the best web reference I found isn't listed. Metfarts are when you are taking the drug Metformin and some carbs. As it was explained to me the Metformin slows down the absorption of the carbs, I think they fester a little down there and become smellier with too much protein. I'm no Dr. but results speak for them selves.

I splurged once and ate several pieces of pizza then went to play ball hockey with the boys and I cleared out the whole gym. They stopped the game and aired it out. I thought it was funny.... apparently I was the only one...

LMAO... HaHaHa!

 

[Racer88]

Kutch has 30+ points in the last 2 playoffs and will probably have 2 cups and makes 1.5m less than marner who has 2 years less term. Pretty simple to see why we cant build a team that can go deep and has to shop at the Dollarama. And the Dubites worship this fool.

This is it in a nut shell yet we continue to hear poster defend both Dubas and Marner