Throw More Waffles
Unprecedented Dramatic Overpayments
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There is a line somewhere though, right?I agree with your premise but there's better options to divest rather than a top player at his age and position.
If the leafs had 3 additional players who all scored 90 points last year, would they give all of them 11 mil each (70% of cap ceiling for 6 players ) and use the remaining 30% on the other 18 players?
At some point, a team has too much cap space tied up in ridiculously expensive star players. I’d argue the leafs are right at that line. They can make it work with a very good contract... but if it’s another completely unprecedented overpayment, I think it would hurt the team to sign Marner more than it would help.
Has there ever been a team with 40% of the cap tied up on three star forwards?