Marner making Matthews money as against the cap

Équipe: 2019-20 Maple Leafs de Toronto

Date de création initiale: 5 août 2019

Publié: 5 août 2019

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Since in my opinion Marner is a top 20 Forward in the NHL he should be payed like one, but he's a Winger which throughout NHL history the make less money than Centers(on top of not being a Goal scorer, which is another big money maker). His asking price is way to high. I also believe the Maple Leafs are low balling him and for too much term. So since Marner wants to make Matthews money why not give him 11.634% of the total cap over say 4 or 6 years(cant be 5 otherwise Matthews, Nylander, and Marner would be up). Thats a cap hit of $9.482M. Which would put him on par w/ Kucherov($9.5M, albeit a discount cause of Tax reasons) and Stone($9.5M, who is a better Forward right now than Marner). And both of those contracts are for 8 yrs where Marner would be up sooner and could then get his 8yr deal if he wants at prolly 13-15 %of the new cap. With the new US TV deal coming up soon and hopefully no lockout the cap should go up quite a bit.

Cap Increases(Its my best guess)
2019-20 $81.5M
2020-21 $83.5M(Lockout Free Cap increase)
2021-22 $86M(post TV Deal)
2022-23 $90M
2023-24 $94M(1st option for Marner in case of the 4 year contract) 13% $12.22M 15% $14.1M
2024-25 $98M
2025-26 $102M(2nd option for Marner in case of the 6 year contract) 13% $13.26M 15% $15.3M

So with this scenario Marner could cash in twice and not have to deal with the fan lash back if he causes the Maple Leafs to have to off load a player this year just because of his contract(fair or not).

Contract details
2019 4yr $9.482M $37.928M @11.634% of cap
2019 6yr $9.482M $56.892M @11.634% of cap
2023 8yr $12.22M $97.76M @13% of cap
2023 8yr $14.1M $112.8M @15% of cap
2025 8yr $13.26M $106.08M @13% of cap
2025 8yr $15.3M $122.4M @15% of cap

And I do realize this will probobly never happen but I can dream cant I.