Confirmed Signing with Link: [TOR] Leafs sign Auston Matthews to ELC

[FreeBird]

Old school Lou is going to kill the team.

Does Matt Martin have to get a Hair Cut?

 

[Divine]

 

[Classic Devil]

Guess Lou really is diverging from his old principles. But then, under the circumstances he didn't really have much choice.

 

[GongShowWilly]

atta boy Lou !!!!
but this was a no brainer

 

[Sniper99]

He'll make as much as he can in Toronto and then head home to Arizona. After all, he's a good ole Arizona boy.

If there is a hockey team when that happens.

 

[HarrisonFord]

Guess Lou really is diverging from his old principles. But then, under the circumstances he didn't really have much choice.

NJ was very much running on a strict budget when he was the GM, was it not?

 

[Off Sides]

It might be that there is some readily available model for #1 picks and they just copied that.

Probably not, though.

Just found it odd, I'm guessing it was not those details holding up the signing and the photographer the Leafs use to take the happy signing picture may have been booked until today?

I am just having a little fun, I actually assume it was just a timing thing, the Leafs being busy doing stuff, him being busy doing stuff, the agent being busy doing stuff.

 

[colchar]

Any word on bonuses?

Did you read the tweets in the OP?

 

[Kamiccolo]

Kinda sad the trolls are allowed to run free but as soon as it's signed and when Lou says it took 10 minutes and he's changed the threads get locked and everyone scurries away.

Yes I am aware I was one of the people scarred. But I owned up to me being wrong.

 

[colchar]

This was blown way out of proportion and for once it wasn't really the leaf fans *****ing about it.

Some were. Hell, some are still freaking out about the no facial hair policy.

 

[TLEH]

Kinda sad the trolls are allowed to run free but as soon as it's signed and when Lou says it took 10 minutes and he's changed the threads get locked and everyone scurries away.

Yes I am aware I was one of the people scarred. But I owned up to me being wrong.

i mean what else do they have to say. I for one thought it was stupid IF he was trying to not give him the bonuses. If they just weren't working on the contract then no big deal, but if they were bickering over bonuses thats stupid.

Good on Lou for not taking that NJ stuff to Tor.

 

[HockeyGuruPitka]

This is a defining moment in Matthews career with the leafs. Auston Matthews relationship with the Leafs may be forever tarnished.

In early June during an intense conversation over flap jacks at flap jack willies in Arizona, GM john chayka promised Matthews an ELC contract with full bonus structure and a life supply of flap jacks. This is something the leafs simply were not willing to match. In early July Matthews requested mlse open a flap jack vendor inside the air canada center. There are two in house standard LOU policies 1)players must be clean shaven and have short hair and 2) no player is to eat flap jacks during the regular season. The sides broke off of negotiations for approximately 2 weeks after the policy was revealed.

They met in the early hours on July 21st, and Matthews insisted a clause be entered into his contract. Lamoriello buckled under the pressure. Matthews NOW has full flap jack clause and is allowed 3 visits per month to flap jack willies in Arizona on the leafs private jet.

Further developments. Insiders confirm that Matthews is the reigning Flap Stack Flap Jack champion.

 

[Nizdizzle]

Kinda sad the trolls are allowed to run free but as soon as it's signed and when Lou says it took 10 minutes and he's changed the threads get locked and everyone scurries away.

Yes I am aware I was one of the people scarred. But I owned up to me being wrong.

If you see someone who trolls in every thread, just use the ignore function for that poster. Trust me, your HF experience will greatly improve. I'm at 43 and counting.

 

[Finnish your Czech]

Maybe the Pokmeon Go servers were down, so Lou had some time to sign Matthews?

 

[Willy Stylez]

Noice.

 

[HarrisonFord]

Maybe the Pokmeon Go servers were down, so Lou had some time to sign Matthews?

goddamn Japan servers causing it to crash yesterday when I had a Lure Module out

I bet you Mew is on Robidas Island

 

[Classic Devil]

NJ was very much running on a strict budget when he was the GM, was it not?

For the love of... the anti-performance bonuses principle has (or had I suppose) NOTHING TO DO WITH MONEY.

 

[HarrisonFord]

For the love of... the anti-performance bonuses principle has (or had I suppose) NOTHING TO DO WITH MONEY.

I thought the philosophy was not giving out bonuses "to put the team first". I assumed that money was a way that it was helping put the team first

 

[Slot]

Kinda sad the trolls are allowed to run free but as soon as it's signed and when Lou says it took 10 minutes and he's changed the threads get locked and everyone scurries away.

Yes I am aware I was one of the people scarred. But I owned up to me being wrong.

There are a handful of guys that are doubling down on the conspiracy theories, Lou was strongarmed by Shanny and all that.

 

[Thorton02]

October can't get here fast enough. I want to see Mattews play.

 

[Zippy316]

So that's Marner, Larsson, and Matthews, as the only 3.... oh wait nvm, that was all imagined by somebody

Larsson hardly had any bonuses, only the standard ones.

At a time when prospects his age were getting cap hits in the 3 millions, he was making .925.

 

[The Thin White Duke]

There are a handful of guys that are doubling down on the conspiracy theories, Lou was strongarmed by Shanny and all that.

This goes higher than that, I bet Trudeau and the Canadian Tire guy had to get involved.

 

[Slot]

This goes higher than that, I bet Trudeau and the Canadian Tire guy had to get involved.

A sternly worded letter from the Governor General and the Queen herself!

 

[Rubi]

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It might be that there is some readily available model for #1 picks and they just copied that.

Strange though that it took 3 weeks to copy and paste.

But go ahead... drink that Maple Leaf Kool-aid.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

I'd imagine Toronto told him to leave the crap in NJ and give Matthews his bonuses.