he didnt hypnotize dubas, both parties agreed on a number. ugh i cant believe that one year after nylander signed i have to explain to people again that its not marner's responsibility to take less. he asked for a number, he got a number..if it was too much they could have said no. also to the bolded..people need to get over that crap, as you can see by this thread, theres negative elements about being a leaf too.
lmao people are mad at marner. We paid for an asset thats worth its value. I see nothing wrong in it. he's going to be giving us lots 90+ point finishes in his career. He's too talented. Hockey is business as well. Its an employee/owner relationship. Owner is trying to spend less, players trying to get paid fairly. (ALL Revenue is generated because of players, they deserve to get paid for their value)
These points of view make me scratch my head.
There is a hard salary cap in place that all teams have to stay under. The Leafs aren't "nickle and diming" it's superstars to fall below the cap and line MLSE's pockets with unused cap space.
The Leafs are trying to win a Stanley Cup, meaning that not only do we have to have a roster with our star players, but they also have to have someone to freaking play with. Marner, Matthews, Nylander, and Tavares are great, but that is 4 guys. They need another 19 guys on the ice with them, and each of our RFA's biting and clawing for every penny takes away from surrounding those guys with players who make us competitive.
Marner taking $1.5m less, Matthews taking $1 m less, Nylander taking $500 k less is $2 million that we can use to have a player like Johnsson or Kapanen. Otherwise, we are looking at these 4 guys surrounded by a bunch of ELC guys who aren't ready and don't make us Stanley Cup contenders.
So far as I can tell, Mitch Marner, William Nylander, and Austen Matthews taking a little bit less and actually being within the Market value doesn't put them at risk of life-long poverty. It just speaks to what their priority is, which is making what they can, and if its at the expense of their 2nd tier teammates, so be it.
I would love to see all our guys and hockey players as whole, get paid more than they do. I think hockey players, compared to basketball and baseball players especially, are criminally under-paid. I also hate the hard salary cap with every fibre of my being. The reality is, however, that there IS a hard salary cap and every penny given to one takes away from another. If guys like Marner want to piss their pants for every penny they can, but it is going to be a the expense of a Hyman, Kapanen or Johnsson type player, which we also need to get to our end goal: to win a Stanley Cup.
It's pretty simple really.