Confirmed with Link: Rielly signs 8 year extension - 7.5M AAV

[zeke]

For next year there will need to be some contract clearing.

Kerfoot will be gone, and given that after July 1 he'll only have $750k in real money left, he'll be very tradeable.

Ritchie probably should be gone too, and hopefully he starts scoring a bit to make a 1yr/$2.5 hit attractive to some team.

Holl would also be one to probably move.


The only painful move that I see coming is trading the 33yr old Muzzin next summer - but at least given that he'll only have $6m left in real money over 2 years ($3m/yr), we should be able to get something good back for him.

Don't actually need Muzzin gone looks like.

 

[zeke]

I saw on Cap Friendly Mo doesn't have one of the massive frontloaded or salary bonus deals, wonder why. Thought that was a trademark of the Leafs.

Wonder why.

It's the new escrow rules from the flat cap - same reason all the guys we signed last summer are backloaded.

 

[leburn98]

What a pleasant thing to read today. I was sure that either A) He was gone, B) They trade one of the big four to afford him. Now that doesn't necessarily need to happen. For starters, Kessel's $1.2M retained and Mikheyev's $1.645M covers Rielly's salary increase. With the cap increasing by $1M, they likely need to move on from one of Kerfoot, Engvall, Holl or Dermott to be able to retain Campbell at a similar figure to Mrazek and replace that player(s) with a Nick Robertson or league minimum, Spezza/Simmonds type player.

 

[96]

LETS GO!

Glad I don't have to go insane over losing Rielly for nothing and stop being a Leafs fan. I'm still here damnit!

 

[socko]

I don't think anyone is surprised you get lost so easily, you don't seem to have much of a clue.

I have no idea where he got his ludicrous theory. Mike Gartner set the fastest skater for us at the age of 36 that stood for 20 years and only got broken because they changed the rules. It's players like Foligno that break down. Doesn't know what he's talking about.

 

[93LEAFS]

Glad he's staying. One of my favorite Leafs and seems he took a slight discount to make it happen. But, its going to be interesting to see how we navigate this.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Fair deal.

$70M / $7.5AAV / 8 years with us = $70M / $8.58AAV / 7 years on the open market.

Value-wise he's priced about $400k under Dougie Hamilton's deal.

He was certainly due for that raise and I'm happy Rielly is still happy being a Leaf despite all the ups and downs so far in his career here.

60 million not 70.

Fair deal for both Sides, didn’t someone say 6.5 million before season started.

 

[AvroArrow]

Don't actually need Muzzin gone looks like.

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The thing that scares me is we have our top 4 forwards, the next highest paid is only 2M. LW is extremely weak and it's been our biggest weakness this year. Bunting has been decent, but we dont have a player to play on the top line with Matthews.

 

[IPS]

Don't actually need Muzzin gone looks like.

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Looks like being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Lose Muzzin and risk the D becoming one of the worst in the league or keep him and risk having one of the shittiest bottom-6's in the league + having to rely on Robertson exceeding expectations.

 

[Cappuccino]

Don't actually need Muzzin gone looks like.

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So you want to get rid of Kerfoot, Holl, Kase, Ritchie (with no replacements) and go with 22 players all the time and expect us to be better than this year?

 

[Apex Predator]

Don't actually need Muzzin gone looks like.

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I don’t know if Robertson is ready to play top 6 with the leafs. He missed most of last year and looks like will miss half this year. From a development standpoint point and what we saw at training camp this year not sure he will be ready.

 

[zeke]

So you want to get rid of Kerfoot, Holl, Kase, Ritchie (with no replacements) and go with 22 players all the time and expect us to be better than this year?

I mean...they're replaced in that roster there.

 

[AngryScotsman]

Comparing to some of the deals defencemen have been signing lately, count me as pleasantly surprised.

 

[IPS]

So you want to get rid of Kerfoot, Holl, Kase, Ritchie (with no replacements) and go with 22 players all the time and expect us to be better than this year?

The bottom-6 is literally almost all 4th liners. 1 of them a complete unknown (Amirov), and 2 of them that could drop of a cliff at any given day and be sub-NHL players (Spezza and Simmonds). That's not even counting Robertson having to take a major jump in development to get a top-6 role.

One of the $5M+ salaries absolutely has to go, unless Campbell gives us some crazy discount.

 

[Teeder Keon]

And a seat on our storied Leaf bench outside !
Go Leafs Go !
Great signing !

 

[Trapper]

Don't actually need Muzzin gone looks like.

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Except if the team fails.
Then it’s doing the exact same thing and expecting a different result.
Again. Again. Oh, an again.

 

[ottomaddox]

Don't actually need Muzzin gone looks like.

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Did you have Ritchie punted from the team?

Buyout?

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Dubas seems to like his stability but it's a problem bringing back and keeping so many of the same guys when the results are bad. This is a really below-average Dcorps when it comes to generating offense and Morgan Rielly's poor offensive instincts don't seem to help.

His 70 point season was the result of him being at a physical peak and being able to skate and join the rush more than him making smart passes in the offensive zone. Now that his speed has dropped a bit, so have the points.

I truly don't think we'll win anything or get far in the playoffs with this D corps, I don't know which of them need to stay or go long term I just know this isn't it.

 

[zeke]

I don’t know if Robertson is ready to play top 6 with the leafs. He missed most of last year and looks like will miss half this year. From a development standpoint point and what we saw at training camp this year not sure he will be ready.

I forgot about Kase. He shouldn't be too expensive. And maybe dial down sandin and Lilly to dermott-level bridge deals:

 

[Cappuccino]

The bottom-6 is literally almost all 4th liners. 1 of them a complete unknown (Amirov), and 2 of them that could drop of a cliff at any given day and be sub-NHL players (Spezza and Simmonds). That's not even counting Robertson having to take a major jump in development to get a top-6 role.

One of the $5M+ salaries absolutely has to go, unless Campbell gives us some crazy discount.

I agree. At a certain point it is no longer workable and that point is really coming closer …

 

[notbias]

The bottom-6 is literally almost all 4th liners. 1 of them a complete unknown (Amirov), and 2 of them that could drop of a cliff at any given day and be sub-NHL players (Spezza and Simmonds). That's not even counting Robertson having to take a major jump in development to get a top-6 role.

One of the $5M+ salaries absolutely has to go, unless Campbell gives us some crazy discount.

not sure you know what a 4th liner is.

 

[tmlfan98]

Dubass with a big middle finger to the continued development of Sandin, Liljegren and Dermott.

 

[JayfromNB1219]

beautiful...wants to be a career Leaf but not handcuff the franchise should a full on rebuild need to happen at the end of his contract...why don't we have more guys like him

 

[IPS]

not sure you know what a 4th liner is.

Do you?

 

[HolyCrap]

I’m fine with the contract. Seems solid IMO. Still some moves and decisions to be made on how to address certain positions