Confirmed with Link: Kapanen and Johnsson officially sign their extensions

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It's a good point with the demands coming out now, but something has to give.

Hearing things on podcasts it seems as if Kadri may be more and more likely to go if posh comes to shove.

Someone today (Mirtle or CJ cant remember) suggested he had asked the Leafs for a bigger role - which they obviously cant give him with JT and Matthew's on board... h
 
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Great signings. Not surprisingly mainboards now consider them overpaid depth wingers and now Marner will have no choice but to leave. Lol.
 
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Hearing things on podcasts it seems as if Kadri may be more and more likely to go of posh comes to shove.

Someone today (Mirtle or CJ cant remember) suggested he had asked the Leafs for a bigger role - which they obviously cant give him with JT and Matthew's on board... h

IMO, that could only mean becoming a winger for JT or Matthews or a 3rd line center that plays PP and PK
 

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Hearing things on podcasts it seems as if Kadri may be more and more likely to go of posh comes to shove.

Someone today (Mirtle or CJ cant remember) suggested he had asked the Leafs for a bigger role - which they obviously cant give him with JT and Matthew's on board... h
Yea makes no sense to have a $4.5M 3rd line C. Would suck to see him go, but he holds really good value.
 
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Great news.

Two great deals. Both team friendly deals too.

Wish Willy and Austin had and Mitch does follow suit.

Team over wallet.
 

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Funny during the season many posters complained, constantly, about auston having to play with third liners in AJ and KK.

Now that KD has signed them, posters are saying "what a good deal for 2nd line players!".
 

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Kasperi Kapanen - June 28, 2019

Published on Jun 28, 2019

Kasperi Kapanen addresses the media after signing a three-year contract extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
 

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Funny during the season many posters complained, constantly, about auston having to play with third liners in AJ and KK.

Now that KD has signed them, posters are saying "what a good deal for 2nd line players!".

Folks can like players but also think they're better suited on different lines. Not mutually exclusive ;)
 

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Hearing things on podcasts it seems as if Kadri may be more and more likely to go of posh comes to shove.

Someone today (Mirtle or CJ cant remember) suggested he had asked the Leafs for a bigger role - which they obviously cant give him with JT and Matthew's on board... h

I've supported Kadri since his junior days. I've also thought he would make a good winger for Matthews. However, it's pretty stupid to make any demands or requests after getting yourself suspended two playoffs in a row. Seems like it's time to unload him.
 

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Kyle Dubas won't apologize for flexing Maple Leafs' financial muscle - Sportsnet.ca
TORONTO — You won’t be getting an apology from Kyle Dubas.

To any of the cashflow-challenged, smaller-market teams who don’t like the way the Toronto Maple Leafs flex their financial muscle come contract time, the general manager says this: Deal with it.

Toronto’s unrivalled ability to front-load contracts with hefty signing bonuses helped secure new deals for Kasperi Kapanen and Andreas Johnsson on Friday. Those were signed before either player could test the waters for an offer sheet and came in at a reasonable $6.6-million in total — tremendous value when you consider that it’s only a hair more than the since-departed Patrick Marleau would have cost them next season.

Had the Leafs not been comfortable forking over exactly 65 per cent of both deals in July 1 bonus payments, they likely would have had more difficulty getting them done so quickly and at such competitive annual values.

Rivals will look on with envy … or something worse.

However, in Dubas’s eyes, it’s no different than the Florida-based teams trumping up their favourable tax status when chasing free agents or some of the NHL’s smaller-market clubs boasting about their low cost of living.

“We’re pretty fortunate in terms of the revenue that we’re able to draw in,” he said. “So I think for us to sit back and have the taxation argument used against us, but then not to be able to use any advantages that we have would be foolish on our part. I hear people bicker about it and make comments about it, but other teams aren’t apologizing for using taxation or cost of living to aid their argument.

“So I don’t think we should apologize either. And we won’t.”

 

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