We have to remember, its still very early and they aren't going to shop Marner, or Nylander or Rielly this soon after the playoffs. Let's see what happens at the draft and during free agency. As GM, Dubas has to play from as much of a position of strength as possible and letting the league know that he's shopping some of his best players, makes it harder to maximize the return.
I wrote in another thread... but I wonder if ownership would accept this. Marner was paid FOURTY MILLION dollars for just his first 2 seasons (yes, his contract was THAT player friendly). He makes 24 million for the next four years. Eichel makes 50 million over the next 5 years.
When you are paid 11 million you should be able to rise above poor coaching
Terrible PP or not, to go that long without a goal, even off the ass, skate, whatever is terrible. And how many playoff games is it now?
In the world of spread sheets, expected goals and GF’s I guess you do……..but in the real world the rest of us inhabit you do not
If he asks for this and Marner feels like he is in the same ballpark they can both f...off.
I wonder how many people in the entire world made $40 million over the past 2 years. He must be in the top 0.0000000000001%. And the guy held out in a nasty battle to milk every last solitary dime from money that comes out of his TEAMMATES pockets.His cap is 10.9.......in 8 days we will have paid him $40M since July 2019
Inherent problem with your argument. The Leafs had the 6th best power play in the league last season. You know what changed? The coaching
Well, were you complaining about poor coaching last season when the Leafs were 6th? I don't even necessarily disagree with what you're trying to say, but when you go from 6th to 16th after changing coaches, the problem isn't always going to be the player.
That's an odd way to look at things though. Marner is a play maker who makes players around him better because of his abilities to pass the puck. You can make comparisons of Marner to Kane, whom he outscored this season . Kane got his 10 million dollar contract, before he scored 46 goals, his career high. Before that he averaged in the mid 20's , which isn't far off from where Marner is averaging today. The point is, Kane's goal scoring didn't explode until he was 26, does that mean I'm saying Marner will take the same path, or is the same level of player, I'm not saying that. But I am saying is , we simply don't know how Marner's goal scoring abilities will evolve in the future and considering he scored more goals last season than the previous and in less games, there's some potential for growth there. I mean , how many people truly believed Nylander would score 31 goals 2 seasons ago? And Marner outscored him last season too. Marner has to evolve and get better, there's no denying that, but Marner does have the makings of an incredible hockey player who can live up to his contract, or at least make it closer .
This is exactly what I think also. Dubas is the type who would rather go down with the ship rather than admit he’s wrong. I can only hope that we’re not looking at another rebuild in the next few years because of him.
