People really need to cut the shit out with the Tavares signing. What team with cap space doesn't sign a #1 center?
One that already had a 1C, who was going to need to be paid soon? If Tavares wasn't from the area, do the Leafs go nuts trying to sign him, simply because he was a 1C and they had cap space? Had he been from Moscow, or Seattle, or whatever, does a team that finished 7th overall, and 2nd in GF, with a 1C who was going to get paid, need another 1C on a big ticket contract? Had Tavares already been there, been drafted by the Leafs, and they draft Matthews later, that's a little different. But to go out of your way, to bring in a guy, at a huge price, potentially because he's a home town boy, when he's not a primary need, that signing is going to be criticized if the team doesn't win. Like any move would be, but we're talking about the Leafs, and so people are going to go hard at them either way, because they're the Leafs.
Granted, pandemic, throws everything out of whack, etc, etc, but could that $11m in cap space have been spent better, or more efficiently, as opposed to on what is really a luxury player for this specific Leafs team?
