As usual, the question that the 'trade him for a defenceman worth $11M' crowd never seem to want to answer is 'who?'
Do you post this stuff for a reaction or just spew mindless nonsense?
IMO, No one is trading for Marner without an extension first.
He will not be paid as a top five scorer next year, and definitly not the year after that. Many players have been taking 1-2year deals and expect way bigger pay next time. When Marner got 11 Nylander should have gotten 9. But in the real world that's what they should get now
When Nylander got his 7, Marner should have got 8.5 - 9 and then sign Matthews to 11.
I was actually replying to a poster who keeps insisting we should have traded Nylander earlier this year for some mythical super-defenceman, but it applies equally well to Marner next year.
Why not? We're already paying virtually that to a player he's been outperforming for the last 2 1/2 years.
I don't know why people think we can trade Marner. We can't. We only had leverage over Nylander which is why it would have been preferable to trade him instead of overpaying him to stay.
True but that contract has only one year left. If Willie is an 80 point player, we are f***ed.
Yeah i know. What i tried to say without saying it, was that in leaf land Nylander has been cheap and now he got paid for those years too.
True, but if Willy averages only 80 points per season over his contract, it will be better than JT, at a lower cap %.
Two wrongs do not make a right. 80 points is underselling Willie. His floor should be 90 points and hopefully he will throw in a couple of 100 point seasons before he declines to an 80 point player.
In this case not so much 'right or wrong' but degrees. Yes, 80 points is underselling - I expect 90 or more, especially if he ever gets used properly for an extended period.
So you are happy with 3 me first players leading your team? Never gonna win with these 3 me first players who are not willing to play outside their comfort zone. Hense why they have so little playoff success as a team IMO.
Absolutely not. But I don't see an easy solution to fix the problem either. The core all have NMC's, they're not going anywhere. The Leafs don't even have their first next year so they can't even tear it down even if they wanted to. No choice but to ride it out at this point.
I think that might be what they have decided. The only thing I see changing next year is if Tre hits a HR or two or three on July 1 and odds are likely not in his favour.
Not happy with three (or even four if you include JT), but there's not much, if anything, that can be done about it right now. Probably the best thing is to suffer through the rest of this season and next, until the two worst (contract-wise at least) are gone.
Hopefully some of the picks and prospects Dubas didn't throw away will help the team, both on the ice and on the spreadsheet.
Well then let’s fit in 20 guys with an AAV of 7 since it’s pointless and the cap is fluid anyway
It certainly matters though. How can you justify paying Nylander more than Pastrnak, who just signed like 8 months before. That means they just have extra money to get better when the cap goes up.
