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I have your gold medal Zippy!
empty threat by his agent. I think the top salary in Switzerland is like a million. Even it were 100% tax free, he's not going over there when absolute stiffs like Schaller make just under two million.
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he has skyhigh expectations, a reportedly nightmare dad advising him and the leafs can compete in the regular season without him. dubas has already taken a lot of heat over blowing up the rfa salaries, and there is currently an impasse across the league on high priced rfas.
based on that, i think the leafs will wait for other rfas to sign and use them as comparables to force marner's hand. so i think he sits and spins, whether in switzerland or wherever.
The Leafs can’t afford a bloated cap hit this season like the one they took for Nylander last season.
So, going into the season without him isn’t good for them either.
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none of the options are good, but i thought they picked up clarkson's contract to give themselves enough ltir to weather that.
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On a teammate no less - former Kamloops Blazer Brett Draney.
Was a joke, even at the time, that neither the league nor the Stars suspended him for it.
Each former player ages differently. Sakic and Linden are both around 50 and are still lean. Linden does a lot of biking and cross country skiing to stay in shape. Other former players form the late 90’s are pushing between 25-30% body fat.
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I have your gold medal Zippy!
Keith Tkachuk got a head start moving up to XXXXX size *while he was still a NHLer*.
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Melnyk wants to pay the least amount of money in next few years and it's so pathetic how transparent he is about it.
You misinterpret. He's not signing with them. He is going there to train with a Swiss team while the Leafs figure out WTF they are doing with him. It allows him to keep in shape with a team which he couldn't do over here. He'd have to train by himself or with a beer league team over here.
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Kuz with a 4 year ban from international play for spending a bit too much time on the slopes.
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I have your gold medal Zippy!
Not in the CFL. Most players there don't get paid well enough to have a drug habit I would tend to think.
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Keith Tkachuk got a head start moving up to XXXXX size *while he was still a NHLer*.
I remember lockout everyone ruthlessly mocking his weight gain. I think it was cfox who called the blues arena and made a joke on air about it.
Exactly which NHL team has the cap space going forward to sign Provorov to an offer that Philly won't be able to match?
Not alot of options out there.
I agree and then find a way to trade for Pool party then there will be direct flights from Helsinki to Raleigh.
Marner is screwed and has no leverage, that was obvious when the Leafs signed Matthews thus avoiding this situation with him as the Yotes very well might have offered sheeted him.
Most of these players listed above have very few reasonable options and as a GM I really wonder if these guys don't sign sometime soon, or if any of them hold out, how it will affect team chemistry?
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