Pretty easy actually, before I came the team had 1 playoff appearance in nine years. Since I have been here we made the playoffs every year and went to the second round once. Also we have been a top 5 regular season team for the last 6 years.
Keeping the paying customers entertained and happy for 42 home games. As one previous owner told Fletch when he wanted to bring in 99. Do you see any empty seats?
Well we are crying over spilled milk now. All we can do is move on.
Ur insane how do you think a conversation would go if they told him he’s worth 9 - 9.5 when you already gave marner more than that fresh out of elc and elc marner is not better than nylander I don’t even know if marner now is better than nylander that’s crazy town
This started with paying to much to Tavares and Marner. There is no way in hell Nylander takes less then Tavares, the player that makes him worse. Or less then Marners contract that Marner had for maaaany years, while Nylander not being 4 mill worse during that stretch. If Tavares and Marner had 9+mill . Nylander would never ask for 11, not a chance. The problem is if they would have let Nylander walk. Marner still want his pay closer to Matthews and if its 8 years maby 15,5 or something like that. Tavares and Marner did put us in a bad place thats hard to get out of. 9+ for Nylander and 11+ for Marner is were i would liked right now. But it is what it is . Not much we can do about it.
Yes Tavares started this shit. But now we keep extending this shit.
In a no cap world I’d agree but in this circumstance we get an extra 11 million to spend on defence
They could have let Nylander go. But not sure they could trade him, you need someone to trade with and he had only a few teams he could be traded to.
Winner winner chicken dinner………
You assume that there will be defense to spend on. With an asset through trade you can be much more targeted to what you want. Letting an asset walk out the door means you are restricted to what's currently on the open market. Which is typically players looking to CASH IN.
Wait six years and plenty of people here will be bitching that Nylander is a anchor and it was nuts to sign him to such a lucrative contract, then again some of us know this and the outcome already……..
That may be the dumbest question ever asked on here which is really quite incredible.
It won't take 6 years. It will start next season when his shit salary kicks in and it's clear he's NOT a top 5 scorer in the league but paid like one.
My advice is to hope for the best but expect the worst. This franchise hasn't figured it out for 56 years. The thing they do best is milk the loyal fanbase and string them on. Signing Willie at all costs is supposed to be a sign of their commitment to winning but most of us long suffering fans can see through it. Hell, we have a large enough sample size to know it but Shanny will keep telling us we will win with this core. Pure f***ing politician like Chelios called him.
I agree with you on the defense, but I think Woll can be a number one goalie. I understand the injury history, but his numbers certainly suggest that he can be a number one goalie, or at least good enough to backstop a winning team.
Insulting people because you can't recognize a rhetorical question when you see one isn't a good look.
Don't blame Tavares - blame Dubas.
I’d go as far as saying they’ve successfully brainwashed many of their fan as is proof by their unyielding loyalty even when it’s apparent they couldn’t care less about success as long as the jersey’s are bought and season tickets are renewed……….
