What is Toronto adding? That isn't even close to get Eichel

Matthews is far and beyond better than eichel lul. We aint adding it would be buffalo who adds lul.

Jack Eichel wins the trade because he doesn’t have to live in f**king Buffalo anymore.

If you’re wondering which team wins it:

Matthews > Eichel, and it’s stupid to think otherwise.

Signed,

A non-Leafs fan who assumes this is a troll post.

Buffalo would win as Matthews is far and beyond better than eichel

Matthews is improving his game year after year, was one goal away from 3 way tying the Richard trophy with Pasta and Ovie

Heck hes gotten so good defensively Keefe is giving him the opportunity to penalty kill get good at that and Matthews will be one of the best 2-way centers in the NHL

Things to like over each player but safe to say both sides are good where they are at.

Leafs, Eichels contract is less and it's more a couple more years

It's fair or Toronto wins, cap hit for Matthews being higher makes the difference, watch this year to prove it.

Nah

Matthews contracts much worse and not worth the difference between them.

Leafs will keep the better player. Elite players aren’t traded to save a little money. Ask oiler fans if they’d trade McDavid for pasta or even MacKinnon who make half the salary. The leafs can’t do anything with the extra 1.5 mil that makes it worth it.

true but when matthews contract is up hes not really gonna make much more, nobody rn is worth more than Mcdavid and it will be a long time before we see anything higher than a cap hit of 12.5mill

Eichel wont finish his contract in Buffalo I see him gone in 2 years

1 for 1 is completely fair, anyone who says otherwise is being biased

right, but think about this? Say Matthews gets traded for Eichel and leaves Buffalo when his contract is up? At least Buffalo could trade Eichel (even if he wanted to leave anyways) for a crazy amount of assets; or, because it's Buffalo, a bad prospect and a late 1st

Dude.. I hate Toronto and I know Mathews is the better player.

Even if he is (and just barely if at all) Matthews is paid more and has less term so Eichel's contract technically has more value.

You know over the last year or so I've read on this very site about players should be getting paid their worth and then Matthews signs his contract amid a crazy streak of goal scoring and now it's suddenly a bad contract.

I have a feeling that because he's a Leafs player, people like to just be sour about this organization signing a top player in the league and less to do with the player's skills.

There are zero issues with how much he is paid, it is perfectly reasonable. The issue is the term, zero reason he didnt get 8 years like Eichel, McDavid, and Draisaitl. If he's not getting full term there should have been a team friendly discount like we've seen plenty of times with players like Kane, Toews, Stamkos, Bergeron, Barkov, and Gaudreau.

Been saying this for a while. Matthews and marner got 8 year money and that’s the biggest issues with the Iit contracts.

As for who wins? Both lose. Leafs need a goal scoring c, sabres need the more traditional c who will pass more. So both players suit their team.

Except Matthews is better so contracts don't matter. Whoever gets the best player wins the deal.

Matthews will cement himself as a top 3 player in the league. Eichel is great but he isn't as good as Matthews.

It's funny when someone says that a contract is much worse, when you've got two very talented players making what they should be making. Much worse? He gets paid $1.63 mil more than him. It's not like one is making $11.63 mil/year and the other is making $5. He's also currently on pace as one of the top 10 goals per game players of all time. Will that happen? Who knows.

They're both excellent players.

That is a bias answer. Matthews has scored the most 5v5 goals in the world since he entered the league. He has scored more goals and points than Eichel in the same age years and is better defensively. They are not even, this isn't a bias answer it's just a fact.

And a team couldn't trade Matthews for a boat load of assets? What point are you trying to make here?

I thousand percent accurate

Kane and Toews are in no way on team friendly deals. You are judging these deals in a vacuum. Barkov signed his deal before he really broke out. Bergeron and Stamkos were signing their likely last contracts and Gaudreau was another who signed long term before really flourishing. Matthews will be getting paid his big money over his best years not the twilight of his career. That is just a poor statement.