BertCorbeau
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It doesn't square with the reports that says he wants to remain a leaf. It is possible he is saying that to hide the truth and limit the backlash but why go through this dog and pony show about money when he could have easily and quietly asked for a trade, maintain his value and the value of him to the maple leafs. He has only damaged everyone involved except for the team that will acquire himGoing on about the possibility that the Tavares signing has impacted the Nylander signed negatively.
I will give an example using Rielly.
Rielly has taken big steps in his development in recent years, both defensively and offensively. He has been able to do so because he has been given opportunities to be the go to guy on the backend and show case his abilities and polish them in high pressure situations. That is how you grow a player. And believe me, that will show when he signs his 3rd contract as the teams best defenseman, our #1.
Lets say for this example that it was Doughty we signed as a free agent instead of Tavares. That would have been great for not only the defense as a whole but still very good for Rielly. They could either be split up and carry an equal work load and thus both be given trusted roles on the team. Or they could be paired to form a super duo on D. This would be healthy competition for Rielly and it would not halter his development and ensure he would get his big payday at the end of the day seeing he would still get a lot of ice time and be used on the PP.
If we then also went out and traded for Erik Karlsson and gave him a long term deal things would change a lot for Rielly. He would then, despite his talents, be the teams #3 d-man and not be used is quite so many situations as he has been used irl or in the fictional example of Doughty signing with the Leafs. And when his contract is up in a couple of years, would he then resign with the Leafs seeing as it would be difficult for the Leafs to pay him much with two franchise defenders already signed. And he would most likely not have been given enough chances to showcase his skills and fine tune them in tough situations to be able to demand top dollars.
If you can understand that kind of reasoning you will understand my reasoning why I believe Nylander has not yet signed due to Tavares signed with us. He simply knows he has two franchise centers ahead of him for the center ice time that really matters if you want to be a star. And he knows he is not even the first choice rw as far as the coach goes.
Isn't there some weird clause that the longer the holdout goes the less of a AAV cap hit over the durations of the deal? maybe that was the plan all along. lol
Going on about the possibility that the Tavares signing has impacted the Nylander signed negatively.
I will give an example using Rielly.
Rielly has taken big steps in his development in recent years, both defensively and offensively. He has been able to do so because he has been given opportunities to be the go to guy on the backend and show case his abilities and polish them in high pressure situations. That is how you grow a player. And believe me, that will show when he signs his 3rd contract as the teams best defenseman, our #1.
Lets say for this example that it was Doughty we signed as a free agent instead of Tavares. That would have been great for not only the defense as a whole but still very good for Rielly. They could either be split up and carry an equal work load and thus both be given trusted roles on the team. Or they could be paired to form a super duo on D. This would be healthy competition for Rielly and it would not halter his development and ensure he would get his big payday at the end of the day seeing he would still get a lot of ice time and be used on the PP.
If we then also went out and traded for Erik Karlsson and gave him a long term deal things would change a lot for Rielly. He would then, despite his talents, be the teams #3 d-man and not be used is quite so many situations as he has been used irl or in the fictional example of Doughty signing with the Leafs. And when his contract is up in a couple of years, would he then resign with the Leafs seeing as it would be difficult for the Leafs to pay him much with two franchise defenders already signed. And he would most likely not have been given enough chances to showcase his skills and fine tune them in tough situations to be able to demand top dollars.
If you can understand that kind of reasoning you will understand my reasoning why I believe Nylander has not yet signed due to Tavares signed with us. He simply knows he has two franchise centers ahead of him for the center ice time that really matters if you want to be a star. And he knows he is not even the first choice rw as far as the coach goes.
It doesn't square with the reports that says he wants to remain a leaf. It is possible he is saying that to hide the truth and limit the backlash but why go through this dog and pony show about money when he could have easily and quietly asked for a trade, maintain his value and the value of him to the maple leafs. He has only damaged everyone involved except for the team that will acquire him
It doesn't square with the reports that says he wants to remain a leaf. It is possible he is saying that to hide the truth and limit the backlash but why go through this dog and pony show about money when he could have easily and quietly asked for a trade, maintain his value and the value of him to the maple leafs. He has only damaged everyone involved except for the team that will acquire him
If it goes by threads I’m glad Marner is no. 16 but sad that Matthews is no. 34.Finally thread #29. It's finally going to be over...
I'm disappointed the lack of Nylander's number reference in the title.
In reality we randomly skipped 2 numbers from 16 to 19 so it's actually going to be until the real 29th thread, thread #31 before he signs
Interesting thoughts, there may well be something to this.
Perhaps he has conflicting thoughts. On one hand he wants to remain a Leaf but on the other hand, Tavares being here might make this situation somewhat less attractive in some ways. It's possible.