Player Discussion Mitch Marner, Continued

[Gilmour1996]

If they sign him to a huge overpay before witnessing his playoff I am moving to the US.

Don't look for a house in Pittsburgh!

 

[thewave]

Don't look for a house in Pittsburgh!

Exactly where I am going. Live like a king with my favorite smiley GM Kyle "the misunderstood 6th dimensional thinker" GM close by.

 

[Dekes For Days]

Incoming Dekes post on how MM was the most sought after RFA in history with multiple offer sheets in 3..2...1....

He wasn't the most sought after in history of course, but it's funny that you think one of the best young players in the cap era wouldn't be highly sought after, even aside from the explicit confirmation of multiple offer sheets. You seem to have moved on to making ridiculous claims about Pittsburgh in a Marner thread though.

Tre rebuilt the D core in 2 off season's. Dubas had 5yrs to do it and he never could

Dubas rebuilt our defense, and made it good for the first time in decades. Treliving destroyed it and then put it back to what it was by utilizing a bigger cap jump than Dubas' entire tenure, and borrowing cap from the future.

because we kept hoping Mac Holliwell or Joey Duzcak would be hidden gems that were overlooked.

It's weird that you think our hopes were put in an undrafted free agent and a 4th round pick that combined for a total of 6 NHL games as deep injury fill-in, instead of the multiple drafted NHL defensemen, and free agent//trade additions that actually played for the team.

Smaller puck movers are not the answer. You can have 1 or 2 maybe...but what he wanted was just ridiculous IMO.

You seem to have no idea what he wanted, or the ways in which strong defenses can be built.

An unsigned offer-sheet = toilet paper in value.
There was no reason to give Marner a contract worth 4 X 1st as compensation without a SIGNED offersheet that the Leafs could have matched to keep the player if they wanted.
A greenhorn GM got played badly and now 2 wrongs don't make a right that Leafs need to overpay Marner based on his original overpaid contract.

An offer sheet, even if not yet signed, still provides leverage and market value information for the player. Marner was better than players that got four 1st offer sheets, but that wouldn't have even been necessary to stick us with a worse contract (10.55m x 5). And of course, we would have been even more screwed if we just sat around waiting to match something, as the cap calculation on a contract changes with an in-season signing, and we would have either lost Marner for a low price, or been forced to dismantle our team. Thankfully, we had a good GM at the time, that was able to get him locked up before the season to a fair contract, consistent with post-ELC history, and aligned with the 1st/1st/2nd/3rd offer sheet level. Treliving is currently negotiating a new contract, and there is no need to overpay Marner. If he does, that would be entirely on Treliving.

Kucherov finished with 44 goals 100 assists 144 points and makes $9.5 mil AAV

Which is, of course, completely irrelevant.

 

[Peasy]

Please just keep him and Matthews away from each other. They both play so much worse together.

 

[Confucius]

He wasn't the most sought after in history of course, but it's funny that you think one of the best young players in the cap era wouldn't be highly sought after, even aside from the explicit confirmation of multiple offer sheets. You seem to have moved on to making ridiculous claims about Pittsburgh in a Marner thread

Mitch will be 28 this year, he no longer is that 21 year old where the sky is the limit. He isn’t done by any means but he has peaked he is what he is, 30 goal a hundred points per season for another 3 or 4 years. There is about 5 guys in the history of the nhl that topped a hundred points after the age of 32. So how much do you want to commit for 4 more years of similar production?

 

[Dekes For Days]

Mitch will be 28 this year, he no longer is that 21 year old where the sky is the limit. He isn’t done by any means but he has peaked he is what he is, 30 goal a hundred points per season for another 3 or 4 years. There is about 5 guys in the history of the nhl that topped a hundred points after the age of 32. So how much do you want to commit for 4 more years of similar production?

What you highlighted was referencing when he was 21, but he would also be one of the most sought after UFAs in the cap era if he made it. Players like him don't make UFA. He is worth a significant amount; both in the market and to us. If people think he's getting 11m under a 92-97m cap, they're in for a surprise. He is one of the best players in the league, and top players tend to last to later ages than your average player, especially when their impacts aren't that reliant on attributes that deteriorate the quickest. There are no better options for his cap space. Letting him walk would be one of the stupidest moves in this franchise's history, and that's saying something.

 

[Evilhomer]

What you highlighted was referencing when he was 21, but he would also be one of the most sought after UFAs in the cap era if he made it. Players like him don't make UFA. He is worth a significant amount; both in the market and to us. If people think he's getting 11m under a 92-97m cap, they're in for a surprise. He is one of the best players in the league, and top players tend to last to later ages than your average player, especially when their impacts aren't that reliant on attributes that deteriorate the quickest. There are no better options for his cap space. Letting him walk would be one of the stupidest moves in this franchise's history, and that's saying something.

Marner is not leaving Toronto, and he is not going to be making under $11 million. The Leafs' salary structure pretty much guarantees that it will be somewhere around $12.5 million per season, give or take a few hundred thousand.