And the Leafs got screwed by the flat cap through the last deals.
You play the cards you have - This is a great deal

I thought Kerfoot was supposed to be a cap dump

OVERRATED. He should not be the highest paid player in the NHL. He and the leafies will never win a cup bc he’s more concerned with making as much $ as humanly possible.

People say no because he will be the highest paid player in the league. That is never a good deal.

Tage will make $7.1 and Cozens $7.1.

Those are good deals. AM making almost the same as them combined is a terrible deal.

So the Leafs would rather handcuff themselves instead of using that money to shore up the depth and blue line…have fun with that.

I hear this is a sign and trade, the trade will be announced tonight.

I’d love to see a study on teams that win cups and how many players they have that take up a high % of the cap and I’d bet the more balanced teams that don’t have mega contracts are more likely to win… I’m immediately thinking of Tampa bay, Pittsburgh, Boston, Carolina, now even New Jersey should be great for awhile… I think it’s great when players can sacrifice some $ so the team can build out depth and acquire other good players…
I’m not even a leaf’s hater, I’m from Toronto, but I just don’t see cups in the leafs future with tavares at 11, AM at 13.25, Marner at 10.9 till his raise, Reilly at 7.5, and Nylander at around 9-10 probably… even with the cap going up any good player they get will want maximum $ unless they’re 37… way too too heavy and I don’t like treliving as the guy to find the bargain contracts that will perform… unpopular opinion for sure but I’ll stand by it until I’m proven wrong

yeah i think they admitted the marleau deal was a mistake in trading the pick that became Jarvis just to dump him... thornton was cheap in TOR... youre right to point out too SJ has an equally atrocious if not worse history of contracts too

i love the 4 year term because you wont be stuck with him when he's declining, but none of these guys are willing to shave 1-2 mil off the top of their deals to improve the depth, and it all looks ok on paper, but man another 1-2mil in depth players would go a long way in the playoffs

No discount but Leafs kept the AAV palatable by giving him the term he wanted.

That would be golden

haha crazy how he wound up being worth exactly the same cap hit by the end of the deal... although with that said, his value was higher when he played LW with better linemates than when they asked him to drive a line as 3C... but clearly he wasn't always used in the most productive roles, and that's not his fault... nobody wouldve ever tried to dump him if leafs weren't in perpetual cap hell for the last 4 years

My bad lol

Ends up being 12.243125mill/yr for 8 years after ELC. At least it's lower than McDavid and a decent amount lower than the originally reported 13.25mill for 8yrs that was on the table for McDavid before he took a discount.

I don't wholeheartedly agree with that but mostly yeh

You're probably going to be right, depending on what happens with Nylander, but Matthews isn't the guy you get rid of to solve that problem. You get your best player signed, and you make adjustments elsewhere to make it work. This is a raise of only $1.6M, which is probably less than the amount the cap is going to go up, so if they can't afford to keep their core together, it's not because of this contract.

Matthews now will almost have the same salary as those two combined. I mean Matthews sir, you want to win a cup so why not take a discount. I mean you’ve already maddie lots in your career, do you really need 13 million dollars a season. Take like a 5 million dollar discount. That can go a long long way for your team with signings and ETC.

Embarassing

4 x 13,2M roughly translates into 8 x 17M

Imagine getting 1/3 higher AAV than McDavid for 1/3 less production ( in before homers come with "inflation argument" )

Never imagined i will have to give Chiarelli credit about being good GM, but anyone that touches Matthews just pushes that narrative higher.

50 Homers voted GOOD SIGNING already

arizona in shambles

Nowhere near as good a player as McDavid and Mackinnon yet he asks for significantly more. What a tool

So is MacKinnon selfish? They signed for essentially the same cap percentage (if 87.5 as expected Matthews is lower). You can say 4 years vs 8 and you'll be right, but flipside is Leafs locked in his core years without committing beyond them. 🤷

Why do the Leafs need to shore up the blue line when last season they were tied for 7th in XGA at 2.68? with only NYI, NYR, Dallas, Carolina and Boston being better.

This is just silly lul

If any team let a guy like this go to fix their blue line when they do not need it GM would be fired

Ironically Leafs will have the most cap of any competitor next season even with this extension

I think Ovie is the biggest tool, imagine a 36 year old UFA asking for $9.5 million on a 5 year deal.

One more year probably would have been perfect, but remember when he signed his last contract, everybody assumed he wanted to get out of Toronto as soon as possible, so I’m pretty happy that he’s not going to free agency and they’ve got him signed for the next five years, which are likely to be his best five, at only $1.6M more than his last contract. I get that some people are worried about what it might cost them to keep him beyond that, but if it’s too much, just let him go. By then he’ll have been with them for 12 years. If that’s all they get out of him, I can live with that.

At least Ovi won a cup before his deal pal

For those who say Matthews does not deserve to be the highest paid player should go look at the numbers

He is ahead of Ovie in Goals per games played and nobody else comes close to those two rn not even McDavid and he has only been in the NHL for 7 years

Matthews lead the league in blocked shots last season

He is getting better defensively and soon we may see him PK

No doubt we may see a few more 50-60 goal seasons in him

Money is fine as if he went to open market could have potentially earned more