No. Matthews was just part of the rebuild, a huge piece, but they should have let those kids develop and kept acquiring assets to be used to strengthen the roster, when it became ready to compete.
You're the only one here who is arguing that the Leafs should have intentionally made their team worse for another year just to try and get another top 5 pick. And again, you really don't think the NHL Head Office would have said something about the Leafs pulling this, considering how quickly they come down on the Leafs (and most other Canadian teams) for even smaller things? Don't even get me started on the media reaction...
Sure but that is not what they did. They fast tracked it and are living off the 4 and not much more up front and in goal.
The thing is the extra change in Aav for the kind of guys we’ve been signing (kampf mrazek Ritchie etc) vs the cap increase ($10m?) is negligible. Those guys might get 150-250k more. We got pinched having just signed 41m worth of aav annually in a group of 4 forwards before everything flattened out.
Guess I shouldn't be surprised that understanding this is a stretch for some.
So the Leafs would have an additional $8.5M, the actual thing is so would Tampa, Colorado, Rangers, Panthers, etc. etc. etc. And those teams seem to understand how to spread the salaries out across the the entire roster.
Never said anything about a top 5 pick. Who knows who they would have been able to draft, keep, trade. Just stay the course keep adding assets and make moves when the time was right.
Does Dubas have very many picks for the next couple of Drafts or are the Leafs contingent just going for the buffet and cocktails
They have 3 this year, 4 ( maybe 5 if zona doesn't use the third) and 6 in 2024 as it stands now.
Not this year, but the full slot of picks is 7 so they are not far off, but the numbers will likely change going forward.
Yes, the three this year brings the total down. But possibly 5 of 7 in 23 and 6 of 7 in 24 isn't that bad. Obviously the numbers can change if we bring in or move out some players.
I have never said or implied anything close to that. Nobody is infallible. Resorting to lying about me is a clear sign that you don't have a legitimate argument to bring.
Not sure why you're switching the premise now, but fact remains that you don't need to have played in the NHL to "know how to win". The B2B cup winning GM and coach would agree.
You're the one that brought up your assumptions of the unrelated playoff predictions of other people, as if they meant anything. I'm the one who has pointed out how irrelevant it is, and how it's especially ill-advised to bring it up when your own prediction was worse.
That is incorrect. The most recent season is important, but it is far from the only important sample. Contract valuation involves much more than cherry picking one other player's raw points, incorrectly adjusted and contextualized, in exclusively their final season.
It's interesting that you would take a year you claim doesn't even matter, and exaggerate an ES difference of 0.2 P/60, while ignoring the 5.61 P/60 difference on the PP that year.
We also have our 1st in each of those years, and we've held on to our top prospects. We've also drafted 30 times in the past 4 years.
Yes, but 37% (11) of those have been 6th or 7th rounders and only 7% (2) were in the the top 50. While I realize there have been late round gems found in the 6th & 7th rounds, the odds are against finding an NHL regular there.
Why would you cut it off at 50, in the middle of a round, other than to exclude a bunch of our 2nd round picks (52, 53, 57, 59)? We've had 10 picks in the top 3 rounds.
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I still don't understand why some people think what you are saying is Rocket Science. If cap goes up...salaries for everyone go up...especially for guys at the bottom because you think you can pay it out without worrying so much about strapping your team.
I think it's debatable that how high would salaries of Spezza, Kampf or Bunting go if cap was bigger. We have signed lots of those cheap picks that have gained more value. Players like Ritchie and Mrazek would have gone up at least few hundred thousand, but we might have got chance to go up one tier in quality of a player (Ritchie contract) with higher cap. Also at the same time all the RFA and UFA contracts of other teams would go up as well and level up the playing field.
Then you see it incorrectly. Discuss your own opinions. Don't lie about other people's opinions.
That was not the premise, but if you want to change it up, it doesn't really matter. The fact remains that you don't need to have played in the NHL to "know how to win".
I'm not sure why your vote would be inconsistent with your opinion, but to be clear, the only reason it was brought up in the first place was because you attempted to ignore and/or misrepresent hundreds of posts of my opinion as well as the discussion at hand, to instead attack me for your assumptions of my unrelated playoff prediction. At that point, noting that your playoff prediction was more incorrect than mine is fair game. I'm ready to move past this silly topic whenever you are.
In my discussions, I consistently address both what things are and what things aren't. I have spoken on contract valuation and negotiations a ton, and have done countless comparisons for our core forward contracts - proving them to be consistent with the history of post-ELC contracts. Your statements on both Nylander and contract valuation were wildly inaccurate, and deserved to be called out. Contract valuation involves much more than cherry picking one other player's raw points, incorrectly adjusted and contextualized, in exclusively their final season.
You didn't address it in your post. You took one season that you claimed is irrelevant, and exaggerated the difference in specifically their ES scoring rates, while completely ignoring the actual massive advantage Nylander had in his PP scoring rates that year. Your only mention of the PP was the difference in their time in that particular season, while conveniently failing to mention that Pastrnak hadn't shown a proficiency on the PP worthy of time.
