Quoting: leafs101
Honestly the contracts aren't as bad as people say.
He won the Tavares sweepstakes over really great teams like Tampa Bay, San Jose, New York, Boston, and all the other teams that were reportedly meeting with him. On top of that, Tavares signed for a rumoured $2-2.5 million less than he was offered from teams like New York and San Jose. I see that as a good contract.
The Nylander contract is looking pretty good now. I have no complaints there.
Marner is overpaid by about 1.5-2M. Not egregious, and who knows, he's 22. Nothing has shown that he can't grow into that extra money, he's a very talented player.
Matthews is the face of the franchise. The MVP. 47 goals in 70 games. Worth every penny in my opinion. Term isn't great but that's 4 years from now's problem.
Leafs just need a change in the playoffs. They are such an underrated playoff team imo because of the Boston losses. Took the cup final team to 7 games while neither Columbus nor Carolina could (Carolina couldn't even get one win on them). I think once they get over the hump and take a decent run (which I think will be this year- not saying a cup, which would be nice and not totally out of question, but a nice run making it the the 2nd round or conference finals) people might start to see the contracts in a better light.
Quoting: DaveAyersStan
Point is the leafs should have 2.5 million more to work with then they do now. They overpaid good players but still overpaid.
Quoting: AndrewLadd
I agree he’s good at drafting, I’d give trading a B- but it’s not that much of a difference than your rating. I’d give him C- contract negotiating
You know what I always wondered.
Nylander's ELC expired one year before Matthews and they had a lot of cap space back then. I wonder if they could have signed him insted of the
45m contract with a hit of 10.277 in year one and then 6.9 for the next 5 to a one year contract
With a one year deal at 15m (I think the maximum is in that area) one year contract
And then also to a 5 year contract with an annual value at 6m
Both would be 45 million in total value, but the leafs would have almost 1 million cap space more every year for 5 years.
You think that would have worked? It is basically not cheating, while also cheating