Confirmed with Link: Nylander signs extension of 8 years - 11.5M AAV

[A1LeafNation]

Knies Matthews Nylander
Bertuzzi McDavid Cowan
Minten Domi Jarnkrok

Tavares and Marner can go away if they don't take any extreme discounts.

 

[MarMarSab3]

Knies Matthews Nylander
Bertuzzi McDavid Cowan
Minten Domi Jarnkrok

Tavares and Marner can go away if they don't take any extreme discounts.

McDavid is #1C
Minten would be 3C
Marner in no way shape or form will take a discount

 

[Confucius]

Knies Matthews Nylander
Bertuzzi McDavid Cowan
Minten Domi Jarnkrok

Tavares and Marner can go away if they don't take any extreme discounts.

I’d be surprised if Bertuzzi is here next year, let alone 3 years from now

 

[therealkoho]

Things I've learned in this thread.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson better look out, Buttons math skills are real!

 

[therealkoho]

I’d be surprised if Bertuzzi is here next year, let alone 3 years from now

I kinda liked McJeebuzz playing behind Matthews. I'd bet he'd like it too, and not just because Matthews would demand it.

 

[notDatsyuk]

Didn’t Dubas already make that gamble on a continuing cap rising…..and here we are again

I'm not saying Tre gambled on it, or that it will happen this time.

Just responding to the posters who say "he won't be worth 11.5 in the last couple of years". It depends on how he's doing, but also on what the expectation for 11.5 is 6 or 7 years from now.

The cap could be 200M and Willy putting up 150 points, or the cap could be 90 and Willy on LTIR. What I gave was a reasonable scenario?

 

[therealkoho]

For sure, I usually get my hot rods out by the time the Leafs take their usual swan dive every spring.


Didn’t Dubas already make that gamble on a continuing cap rising…..and here we are again

There are some that say everytime Matthews goes over the boards that some folks here start revving up their own hot rods

 

[therealkoho]

knock knock

Who be u

 

[Petrus]

It seems some people are missing the positives of this contract. If Nylander finishes where he is now top 5ish in scoring then Marner can't ask for close to Matthews deal he will have to settle for similar money to Nylander's.

What if Marner’s camp does ask?

What then?

 

[notDatsyuk]

Ahh...irony. The first time I heard somone calling someone Paul, I was riding my pet dinosaur. We might as well go right to the knock knock jokes.

Oh, alright:

How many pro athletes does it take to change a lightbulb?


Just one - he holds it, and lets the world turn around him.

 

[thewave]

I'm not saying Tre gambled on it, or that it will happen this time.

Just responding to the posters who say "he won't be worth 11.5 in the last couple of years". It depends on how he's doing, but also on what the expectation for 11.5 is 6 or 7 years from now.

The cap could be 200M and Willy putting up 150 points, or the cap could be 90 and Willy on LTIR. What I gave was a reasonable scenario?

To be fair and realistic.

I didn't think about it at first but the ticket prices should probably be increased 20-30% right now and the cost of Merch the same. I suppose player salaries should have probably gone up 30% since 2021 as well really. Most other things cost that much more. That being said if we take his 7m current and add 30% we get around 9m and change. Then you can argue he was underpaid to start and his performance is already up so 11.5m is fair.

So really. The disconnect is in the league CAP which should probably rise 15% each year for the next two years to be fair to the players.

Get on it OWNERS, you owe the players a 20%-30% immediate cap increase. (Obviously this mitigates our cap constraints and I won't care about the "overpay")

 

[JKG33]

What give-a-shit? Benn's pts/game is also worse in the playoffs.

Most players pts/game falls off in the playoffs. Difference is Matthews/Marner/Nylander all fall off much more than their contract peers.

it's obvious Benn is out there hitting guys, battling, and being a pain in the ass. He's not necessarily a points guy at this stage of his career.

 

[Gary Nylund]

Who be u

Eh, I'm just bored. This weather has me so listless and lethargic today, I barely recognize myself.

 

[Superstar]

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So we got Auston "Superman" Matthews, William "Spiderman" Nylander, Mitch "Robin" Marner and John "Batman" Tavares at forward...too bad we have Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny playing defense and Elmer Fudd playing goal...

 

[keonsbitterness]

Most players pts/game falls off in the playoffs. Difference is Matthews/Marner/Nylander all fall off much more than their contract peers.

it's obvious Benn is out there hitting guys, battling, and being a pain in the ass. He's not necessarily a points guy at this stage of his career.

It's obvious he's shit.

 

[notDatsyuk]

For sure, I usually get my hot rods out by the time the Leafs take their usual swan dive every spring.

"Swan dive"? Don't you mean "belly flop"?

 

[JKG33]

That explains a lot.

The irony of a Leafs fan trying to use being a cowboys fan as an insult... They're basically the same team

 

[keonsbitterness]

The irony of a Leafs fan trying to use being a cowboys fan as an insult... They're basically the same team

They're basically not.

Let me guess, you liked the star on the helmet as a kid.

 

[JKG33]

They're basically not.

Let me guess, you liked the star on the helmet as a kid.

Family ties to Texas. C- on the troll effort

 

[TheDoldrums]

I really don't think the AAV was THAT much different in the summer. Willy just proved what he could do with 20 mins TOI

 

[keonsbitterness]

Family ties to Texas. C- on the troll effort

You obviously made that up.

 

[JKG33]

You obviously made that up.

Swing and a miss

 

[notDatsyuk]

Most players pts/game falls off in the playoffs. Difference is Matthews/Marner/Nylander all fall off much more than their contract peers.

it's obvious Benn is out there hitting guys, battling, and being a pain in the ass. He's not necessarily a points guy at this stage of his career.

Looking at pts/game production over the last three seasons (20-21 to 22-23), regular vs playoffs:

Matthews: 1.29 to 1.00 - drop of 0.29
Marner: 1.27 to 1.04 - drop of 0.23
Nylander: 0.98 to 1.00 increase of 0.02
Tavares: 0.96 to 0.74 - drop of 0.22

Benn (career) 0.82 to 0.75.

 

[BertCorbeau]

14th/15th in goals in points in the last 3 years

I really don't think the AAV was THAT much different in the summer. Willy just proved what he could do with 20 mins TOI

Willy was motivated to start this season. Now what happens with his big payday? Will he show that he truly wants to win?

 

[keonsbitterness]

Swing and a miss

Grand salami, even though I hate baseball.