Sign Marner and Tavares before playoffs?

[sxvnert]

Yeah that may work. Still means we only have a 3 year window to win. The last 3 or 4 years probably look awful but we are also probably in rebuild.

Exactly. All of these contracts still around after the window closes can be retained at 50% and dumped if need be.

 

[thewave]

Exactly. All of these contracts still around after the window closes can be retained at 50% and dumped if need be.

I think only 2 contracts can be retained on.

 

[Stephen]

This morning Dregs said Tavares wants market value probably in the $6m neighborhood. I'd pass unless they spread the money over 6 years like they did for Tanev.

As for Marner, he asks does Marner accept $13mx8 or does he push it away saying he is gong to test FA?

I’ve been uncomfortable with the idea of bringing back Tavares but $6 million is kind of what you’d envision for a hometown friendly deal. It’s less than Kadri money and more than ROR money. It’s fair.

 

[Menzinger]

I think they can/will get the Tavares extension aav down with term, which I expect to be about 6 years. He clearly doesn't want to go anywhere else so I don't think it's a big deal either way

Marner is harder. I can see the agent threatening to pause negotiations until after July 1st to try and get a preferential deal locked in. Either way it certainly sounds like just a matter of time until they announce something

 

[Martin Skoula]

Tavares sure but it can’t be on an expectation that he’s going to be 2C for the duration of whatever the contract is, there has to be some room to get a 2C of the future and look at Tavares as a 3C or top 6 power winger after a year or two transition period. He looks great this year but realistically he’s not going to have the legs to backcheck in high end 2C minutes in the future.

 

[Niagara Bill]

Marner is gone...just get used to the idea.

 

[LeafSteel]

No rush to resign either.

Tavares I think will be an easy and reasonable resign, with a lower annual hit for an extra year or 2 of term.

He can’t be paid like a 2C, and he should start to transect year into the 3C slot.

I have no such confidence with Marner. Even if he has a lighted out playoffs, which he’s never had, I don’t know how thrilled I am to be chained to this core, with above market contracts for the next 5-8 years.

If they can’t get it done while in their primes, and we don’t have the cap remaining to bring in quality pieces to surround them and push them over the top, why are damning ourselves to the same playoff futility on top of the 8 years we’ve already been through?

I don’t hate Marner, but he represents the only real opportunity to change. If he’s resigned, I think we are all about rinse and repeat.

Love to be wrong but we’ve seen this show….. a lot.

 

[NVious]

No thanks unless Tavares is gonna sign a 4x3 or 3x4.

They've both done nothing in the playoffs, to sign them now would be insane, especially when they can have another atrocious playoffs and then we're really stuck with them.

 

[thewave]

Marner is gone...just get used to the idea.

The Shanagang won't be broken up.

 

[Buds17]

Be proactive or play the waiting game; there's an element of risk involved with either approach. Those players can be signed now based on the hope of what they'll be able to accomplish, or management can wait and enable the players to weigh the team's offer against whatever offers may come from rival teams.