Quoting: MMXD
Ok, but Matthews and Marner play up to their contracts. (Marner played about 1.5 below what he should be getting this yes, but he also had a down year). JT was a good signing, considering he took less then what was offered by the sharks. And remember, Tavares came over and both him and marner had career years. One or two trades can address their defensive core. You can't even say Matthews is going to leaver rn, it's way to soon to even worry about that. Dubas came in and had to deal with the mess that Lou left, with the likes of the Marleau and Zaitsev contracts. Sparks and Hutchinson didn't work out, but he had no idea of that. He addressed the need of a goalie and girt, so he traded for Campbell and Clifford. He didn't get the right D in barrie or ceci, but he knows that, Ceci was already tendered so he kind of had no choice, and then he hoped he'd bounce back. As for barrie, they got rid of Kadri, who can't keep his cool in the playoffs, which is a win in my book. Dubas is a smart cookie and will address the needs if he can. So with your comments, you sound like you're really just a leaf hater anyways. *mic drop*
Marner had a down year. Based on what? His 1 year that way better? He is vastly over paid. He makes 1.5 million less than McDavid who is a 40+ goal 100 pt player. Marner is a 20 goal guy.
He gets paid the same as Panarin. Who tested FA while Marner is a RFA. A guy who has proven, he is a one man offense, something Marner has never done. He should have never been signed to that much.
AM, contract would have been fine......on an 8 year deal. There is really no sense in commenting on that any further. Everyone knows that's true.
This team is a mess. He's been here years and has not "fixed" anything, things have actually got worse.
There is no defense there, the cap is way to tight to sign anyone. He did multiple bad deals in Kap and Johnsson. Wasting more money on depth forwards while the defense totally sucked.
Those were his bad decisions. Look at how every other TOR acgm is trading Johnsson now. That deal is 1 year old and frankly an anchor. They should have never signed it.
If you want text book stupid decision making lets talk about giving Holl a Modified NTC. WHY? I know, dumb rookie GM move. There was no need for any of that.
Lets talk about that Nylander contract, that huge hold out that wasted his year last year. And while it's a reasonable contract that one might expect. His play is no better than a slew of other guys in the league who all made 6 million on their RFA years. So it's not really the steal people want to claim it is.
Fact is, that AM contract just set the time line for melt down on this team. Because one of two things will happen. AM will either bend Dubas over the table on a contract and further destroy the cap because Dubas was to naive to get term, or he leaves and the leafs lose their best player.
This team reminds me of the Cleveland Cavs. Lebron shows up and takes over the team and ruins it. While the owner is glad he leaves to "have his team back" You have just seen what happens when the players take over a team and shove the front office around. Dubas is a push over.