Option C: let him sit or sign an offersheet.
I would have offered him either 8 x 12 or 5 x 10 & said these are our offers - take whichever you prefer. Or, if you want to be booed relentlessly the rest of your career, sign a max contract offersheet somewhere else and we'll take the draft picks.
Yes, threaten AM Lol Man with a plan
This is a worse deal than nylanders. Why are you giving him this much money for 5 years. He hasnt proven to be a top 10 player in the league. Matthews didnt take a single penny off. The bonus "advantage was bull**** and didnt lower the cap at all. 5 years gives him every chance to leave to zona while being an overpaid player.
What had McDavid done?????? lol
That's putting it mildly.No I just have a bit of a calmer demeanor about this than you. I was disappointed that we didnt get more of a discount too and realize that we probably could have had this $ at an 8 year term in the summer, but thats gone now and I knew that months ago...
We got our best player locked up... as a fan, that is nice to see and I still think we can win a cup with this team.
Option C: let him sit or sign an offersheet.
I would have offered him either 8 x 12 or 5 x 10 & said these are our offers - take whichever you prefer. Or, if you want to be booed relentlessly the rest of your career, sign a max contract offersheet somewhere else and we'll take the draft picks.
Are you denying that we don't pay players above and beyond their actual abilities unlike all 30 other teams around the league??That's putting it mildly.
No, when I said "That's putting it mildly" to someone talking about your relative reactions, I was in fact not talking about player contracts. Shocker, I know.Are you denying that we don't pay players above and beyond their actual abilities unlike all 30 other teams around the league??
I wanted him at 8 years about 10-10.5 with 11 mill being the max. Your supposed to sign your rfa to sweet contracts. Dubas cant get a nice looking contract for anyone he has signed. On a 5 year deal I hope for 9ish. The cap is rising but matthews hasnt become a much, gaudreau, mack, level player yet. He gets paid more than superior players while having the chance to cash in in 5 years and go home. This deal is bad. Matthews needs to become a much better player soon if he wants to have a chance of living up to this contract. People cite /60 stats and go crazy for the guy. His actual production is never that of a top 10 player. If Rantanen gets less money than him on a 8 year term it will be so sad. Rantanen has been a better player than matthews 2 out of the past three years. Really hope leafs arent the only team screwed by young rfa's.I don't understand this argument. If you don't think that Matthews has proven himself enough for a 5/11.3 deal, why would you want to sign him for more years at more money per year?
Or did you want no more than 5 years at a smaller amount?
between the two options, I'll go 5 years. But not getting Matthews for 12.5 for 8 years (100 million) is a blow for everyone imo.
I keep hearing this. It's like saying, "not getting my house for $300,000" is a blow for me, when the actual market price for the house is $500,000.
12.5M for 8 years was obviously not an option. If it would, Dubas would have been all over that. But clearly, Matthews was asking for 17% of the cap, like most superstars make (Crosby, Ovechkin, McDavid) which would have been 14M for 8 years.
Personally, I'd rather have Matthews signed at 11.6M then 14M. But let's not pretend that 12.5M for 8 years was an option.
I keep hearing this. It's like saying, "not getting my house for $300,000" is a blow for me, when the actual market price for the house is $500,000.
12.5M for 8 years was obviously not an option. If it was, Dubas would have been all over that. But clearly, Matthews was asking for 17% of the cap, like most superstars make (Crosby, Ovechkin, McDavid) which would have been 14M for 8 years.
Personally, I'd rather have Matthews signed at 11.6M then 14M. But let's not pretend that 12.5M for 8 years was an option.
Why is there so much outrage on here? We just locked up our best player at a AAV that lets us stay one of the best teams in the NHL for 5 more seasons...
The problem is, Matthews is not in the same tier as Crosby or McDavid.
We paid 400 k for a 370 k house. Not bad, not a steal either. We overpaid to get what we want with that nice walk in closet the wife wants
McDavid never got 17%...
McDavid got 16.68% on an 8 year deal. 15% seems proper for Matthews (because he's not McDavid) and on an 83M cap he's at 12.45M on an 8 year deal. We can bump it to 12.5M flat x 8 years and that would have been fair for everybody. Even an overpay of $13m/8 would have been ok, But $11.6m/5 is a massive, massive overpay.
I think the problem is the supporting cast (nylander, kadri, etc) getting too much
The cap situation is a mess
Why are we giving them these massive signing bonuses that only rich teams like Toronto can do. And, paying them market value. Way to get taken to the cleaners Dubas.