Voted yes. Not because it's a good contract but because all the stupid trade proposals will stop.

You wish. Now we get the flood of ACGMs of teams trading good players to Toronto 50% retained to help them out of the mess their cap will be. lol

This is pretty bang on. This contract is far better than losing Nylander for nothing, and if you were trying to win this player over to your team, you sign it in a heartbeat.

The big L here for BT is that he allowed it to get to this point. There was a lot of risk of this happening, and it was obviously there. Expectations changed the second the NHL announced a cap increase for next season, and throw in Nylander's point streak and another year where he just plain looks better than the year prior (which has been Nylander's trajectory) and you basically have a GM that lit $1.5M in cap space on fire trying to save $500K. That's a terrible bet.

Reality is, when the Leafs ask was just under $9M and Nylander was at $10M, they should have realized there was more for Nylander to gain than the Leafs, and should have hammered away at it until a deal was done in the offseason. You could have just caved and gave him $10M and that would have been a win in hindsight.

BT's decision making has been mostly very poor with Toronto, but I think it's Shanahan that really should be feeling the heat. Forget about what people think of Dubas, but how does a president of hockey operations go from offering an extension to Dubas to firing him over a 48 hour period with no backup plan in place? What other organization would fire their GM in the middle of their competitive window? I mean I get the lack of playoff wins, but still, no other team would fire a GM of a team that has the record that the Leafs had over the last 5 seasons, especially going into an absolutely critical 24 month window where every star forward will need a new contract.

If this Leafs core ever wins, it's now going to be in spite of management, not assisted by it.

Does this take into account expected cap increase? The NHL's hockey related revenue was over $6 billion last year and expected to be $6.2 billion this season. The salary cap should be close to $100 million, except according to the CBA it can't grow by more than 5% per year. It's going to grow at the max every year for the next four years, just to catch up to where it should be now. If the cap does hit $100 million before this contract ends, then its value will rise with inflation.

Toronto doesn't need another goalie, Woll and Hildeby are most likely the future

Yeah, but u still need to pay them 5M+ once they current contracts expire if they are starter material or great goalies 7M+ and u probably cant ask them to take pay cut either. But i agree Woll and Hildeby might be your future goalie tandem, and Toronto has still this season time to see how Woll play and do decision in summer if they want or not want take Gibson or some other goalie. Now Goalie markets are hotter than ever and teams have to pay huge overcharge, so if Toronto stay out of that game, that might turn win for them.

Nah, I'm happy Willy is staying

Setting the over/under on pages this post will have at 15.

I'm sure it will be cordial.

Setting the over/under on pages this post will have at 15.

I'm sure it will be cordial.

I'm not sure how you being happy he's staying disproves my statement we'll see a ton of ACGMs of Leaf fans proposing trades to send good players to the Leafs at 50%. They clearly can both be true..

Seems that Toronto is under the impression that the cap will be at least $100 million next year.

The Toronto overpayment...

Yikes. Top heavy and guys that can play in net or in front of the goalies in there own end. What a mess the Leafs are.

All that to lose in the round

Really??? How about the the teams that spend to the cap (or nearly to it) that don't even make the playoffs.
Leafs have managed their cap somewhat differently in the past few year than most team, but doesn't mean they have mismanaged their cap worse than most other teams.
For example the Oilers have 30,6m tied in three players where has it got them.

Toronto has one, one playoff round win in the last how many years. Edmonton has. Checks my facts, last 2 years Conference Semi-Finals and Conference Finals. So they use less money than Toronto on their top3 players and better success...

Surprisingly it’s not as bad as you’d think. Nylanders raise is more or less covered by the rising cap. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s an overpay.

They have been ****ed by the cap the last 2years. Now they will be ****ed the next 5+. So great deal...

No blame on Tre for this terrible contract. If calculator boy Dubas set the culture straight in Toronto, there will be discounts. Started by overpaying on both Marner and Tavares, the others followed suit. Ultimately, glad Nylander is here for 8 years

Tre was in a lose-lose situation. Either let Nylander walk, get minimal value in a trade, or overpay him