Rumor: TOR and John Tavares close to a deal: 3 years at 7 million

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This is absurd. I like JT and he is having a fine season but I would rather overpay Sam Bennett just to mix it up.

To me this also confirms they are about to resign Marner, who again I have zero issue with but collectively this team does not work for whatever reason.

I would love to be wrong and they win the Cup this year, but I think I would wait until the playoffs were finished before handing out extentions
 
I always go to bat for JT around here, but you'd think, providing we bow out early again this year, if the philosophy is to change the leadership group in the dressing room and give the team a fresh feel in some way, he'd be an easy candidate to let walk. Doesn't leave us enviable at center, though.
 
I'd be happier if this new AAV was under $7 million, but a $4 million savings on his current deal in an inflating cap world is not bad. Although I've also wondered if it would make sense to walk away from JT entirely and just have $11 million in open cap to operate with.

As it stands, you can think of that $4 million raise being gobbled up by this current Matthews deal and the next Marner deal.
 
I'd be happier if this new AAV was under $7 million, but a $4 million savings on his current deal in an inflating cap world is not bad. Although I've also wondered if it would make sense to walk away from JT entirely and just have $11 million in open cap to operate with.

As it stands, you can think of that $4 million raise being gobbled up by this current Matthews deal and the next Marner deal.
Exactly.

So they are net even.

But Knies is going to get a raise so already leaving less room to improve elsewhere.
 
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Sounds like a good deal to me. With how much the cap is increasing the next few years, that # is not as high as a percent of the cap as it looks.
 
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