Pia8988
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- May 26, 2014
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signing just their top 2 players {I will call it 22 mill between the 2 of them you divide it up as you like}
* Austin Matthews 11 mill
* Mitch Marner 11 mill
John Tavares 11 mill
william nylander 6,962,366
Patrick marleau 6,250,000
Nazem Kadri 4,500,000
Zach Hyman 2,250,000
Connor Brown 2,100,000
Frank Gautier .675,000
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morgan rielly 5 mill
nikita zaitsev 4,500,000
travis dermott .863,333
justin holl .675,000
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frederik anderson 5,000,000
= 14 players signed for 71,785,366
9 players left to sign... say 8 sign for 900k each elc takes us 79 mill with 1/3 of team all elc contract
how much will cap go up... will it be enough to sign gardiner? or another 20 min/anight dmen?
the leafs are as good as they will ever be today... they have maxed out. theres no room to add a needed dman
you will notice I left some of their important players off my list... rfa/ufa… zero chance to sign them given the reality of this bleak situation
can they trade nylander for a dman? sure... why not
will they get rid of marleau {shouldn't have signed him in first place}
what will that do to their fabulous forward depth? will they still be anything special to talk about with his 4 above average forwards left to carry the load?
they better hope for miracle goaltending because that d looks putrid once gardnier and hainsey are gone and replaced with two elc contracts
everyone is going to know they are desperately looking to deal marleau/nylander for a dman… vultures will be circling.
and people told me this was a 'good problem' to have. fans will be rioting when Toronto is shotgunned into bad trades and falls short of a sniff of the cup. will they even win a playoff round before they have to break up this team?
labour shutdown coming in the next cba negotiation and Toronto will be leading the war wagons
It is much better to have too many good players than not enough. Brown/Hyman and Marleau fix the issues with out losing a lot of their forward depth.