Most goals, tied for second in points. Most ES points, tied for most ES goals. Most PP goals, third in PP points. Tied for most GWG.
Correct. But let's not throw away our best playoff performer while waiting for Tavares to disappear. And while he may be close, he likely won't get $10M.
Impressive. To be fair, we could mention that defensively he's not nearly as good as M&M but on the other side of the coin, it's also important to note that his cap hit has also been far below those guys.
I've been trying to think of a player who lost cash because of their playoff stats, but i can't come up with any names. Anyone come to mind for you?
Not that familiar with contracts around the league but my guess is that it's true, playoff performance doesn't have that much of an impact on contracts. I'm just saying that if I'm the GM, playoff performance is definitely something I'm considering and if I have players who make a habit of underachieving in the playoffs, trading them probably makes more sense than locking them up for top dollar. If playoff performance has no impact on cap hit, why not stack the roster with players who play to their potential in the playoffs?
Predictability is the biggest issue with "playing to potential in playoffs" and it becomes tough to predict and differentiate.
Yeah true, and playoff being a shorter season makes it more unpredictable by nature anyway. That said, we've failed as a team so many times now and especially when I think about some of our abysmal performances in game 7's (were we outscored 11-2 in one 4 year stretch?), it's pretty hard to write it off as just variance and makes me think there's something wrong with this team at it's core. These playoff failures are of course a team "achievement", not an individual one and while Matthews is "the man" therefore gets a good chunk of the blame, I'm not on his case as much as some other people and IMHO his playoff performances overall have only been a little bit disappointing. Marner is the one who really fades away the higher the stakes are - his overall numbers aren't THAT bad but what they don't show is that he tends to put up points early but in game 7's, he's nowhere to be found. And as you may be tired of hearing about, he was so bad in game 3 against Florida. Yes that was just one game but IMHO there's simply no excuse for any veteran player playing so badly and looking so scared in any playoff game ever and especially not Marner who's supposed to be one of the best players in the world.
I dont disagree with this and I think changing the pieces or makeup is fine, it just comes with risk.
And I can only repeat what I said earlie - If playoff performance has no impact on cap hit, why not stack the roster with players who play to their potential in the playoffs?
Willy has all the time in the world. Pay me 10 or someone else starved for a high quality player will. That’s UFA.
Hard to "know" anything for sure, the best we can do is make the best educated guesses we can.
Matthews received a 14% increase and Nylander at 10 million will receive a 42% increase? I'm sure Leaf Management has sent a message coming in at 8.5 million a 20% increase at best.
Is another team going to give him $11 million? If all he wants is money, he would get the most on an 8 year deal from Toronto. He and his agent know that. I am sure that he will end up signing for something less than $9.5 million with Toronto, and all the people that hate him will continue to hate him, and all the people that love him will continue to love him. Then, when Toronto wins, everyone will love all of them.
I think that is exactly what management will end up doing. I think Treliving has his marching orders, and I think a signed Nylander is part of those orders.
Nobody hates WN.
