Laine Extension

If he was taking this much Jets would have given him a long term deal and not a bridge. Laine will ask for at least 9.5m on anything longer than 5 years.

Gotta think he’s getting between 9-10 mil on he’s next deal.
Marner 10.9 (obviously an outlier 🤦‍♂️)
Kane 10.5
Kucherov 9.5
Stone 9.5
Benn 9.5
Rantsnen 9.2

Did you see the Jarmo press conference this morning???
His ego wouldn’t allow him to even acknowledge any sadness for the situation or departure of Dubois, or acknowledge anything other than it was Dubois’ doing.

Not Torts’ hard-ass style that has gotten him chased out of 3 prior teams (NYR right after making playoffs) and TB shortly after winning the cup.
Torts berating and humiliating Dubois on the bench (August 2020 against the Leafs), and airing dirty laundry in the media about the Dubois situation.
Jarmo in lowballing Dubois and finally giving him a $5m x 2 deal (the home grown drafted #1C that the team waited 15 years to get, and hadn’t missed a stinking game in his 3 years in the team), while bringing in Domi on a $5.3m x 2 deal. Dubois had every reason to want out.

Now to Laine...he will probably be just as unhappy with Torts’ style. Jarmo will probably give the same ole schtick about being a small market team that can’t afford such a large contract, and offer Laine a $8m x 8 deal (even though he was rumored to have offered Panarin a $12m x 8 deal before he bolted). I see Roslovic as the silver lining in this situation. The Finnish bond will not be enough to keep Laine happy.
And Torts’ time in Columbus hopefully is on a short countdown.
Jarmo and his ego came across in the presser like he was the savior in this whole situation, when he definitely was part of the problem.