Minnesota Wild 2019-2020

Myers will get more with the lack of rhd in ufa, you are cutting his pay.

Toronto declines for cap reasons and from an asset management standpoint. Would we not be better off signing Myers for less keeping our futures and signing Spurgeon in the offseason?

But Spurgeon is much better than Myers, if you need quality, it is not better, and if just to sign a free player, then okay, Myers really overrated.

Just illustrating a point. I wouldn’t want to sign Myers.

While I agree that Myers may get more than that a year due to lack of quality right-shot defensemen in UFA, that is the highest number I would offer a year to Myers if I were a GM.

With regards to the Spurgeon trade, GM Paul Fenton needs to hit a homerun on this trade. Spurgeon is by far his most valuable asset available for trade and he isn’t going to trade him for any less than what he’s worth. 31 teams in the league are looking for players like Spurgeon. It’s pretty clear how desperate Toronto is to find a quality partner for Morgan Rielly. And with their cap situation going forward and unless they can move a contract like Zaitsev or Marleau, they might be forced into making a move like this even if it might hurt them down the road. But Toronto’s window to win is right now and this move helps them immediately.

Toronto’s window to win is the next 10 years. I would love to have spurgeon but the cap hit is an issue. If you retain 50% the deal is atleast plausible. Your trade adds atleast 2m in cap. So I don’t see how the leafs are forced to make a move like this for cap reasons.