Fables
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- Apr 27, 2015
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It's a slow summer for a hockey fan so reading about signings, trades and negotiations is about the only interesting hocket related activity.
I just took a look at this story about Matthews and his new contract:
Maple Leafs, star centre Auston Matthews talking contract extension - Sportsnet.ca
Regarding that story I believe that the Eichel contact sets the floor for Matthews while the Tavares contract sets the maximum. Of course it's possible that he wants to give Leafs a really, really team friendly contract and accepts one between 9-10 millions or that he wants to be highest paid player and demands 11-12 millions. But I think the very likely contract value for him will be anything between 10 and 11 millions.
I also personally agree with most people about value of Leafs big three: Matthews > Marner > Nylander ( though now with Tavares I quess we should talk about big four). So I assume they would like sign those three to long term contracts in that order/priority even though Nylander is the one needing his contract first. And I believe that if one of these players needs to be signed to a bridge contracts due Cap issues it will be Nylander.
This made wonder how much Leafs fans would value Nylander in a situation where he gets and signs an offer sheet that is relatively high but not ridiculous. I don't mean to troll and say that Nylander wants to leave. I actually believe he wants to stay in Toronto and win. Therefore I'm completely exluding here a possibility that he would sign an offer sheet from a team that has no chance of competing in the next few years.
But let's assume that a possible contender (teams like Stars, Sharks, etc...) would make Nylander an offer sheet of 5 x 8.1 millions and offer a role he would like and Nylander signs. For Nylander this would be a nice contract. It would pay him a bit more than he's worth at the moment considering this would buy out mostly his RFA years and he would be in a perfect age (27) to really cash in with his next contract when he will be UFA.
Are there any Leafs fans that would hesitate matching this offer sheet? The compensation would be 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks. But if the the offer sheet is from valid contender those should be late picks in each round.
I assume in a vacuum Leafs would match without hesitation. But it's not so simple if you think about other implications. Paying this much to Nylander might set the floor for Marner long term
contract (or a least make it higher than it would be otherwise), matcing would mean Leafs are paying Nylander this much while they still need to pay Marleau the big bucks, etc. Or it could possibly force leafs to bridge Marner and likely make his long term contract 1-2 millions higher the following years. So maybe Dubas would hesitate to macth???
I think Leafs would still match without blinking but I'm curious to hear if any leafs fans would be willing to let Nylander go in this situation and take the picks instead?
I just took a look at this story about Matthews and his new contract:
Maple Leafs, star centre Auston Matthews talking contract extension - Sportsnet.ca
Regarding that story I believe that the Eichel contact sets the floor for Matthews while the Tavares contract sets the maximum. Of course it's possible that he wants to give Leafs a really, really team friendly contract and accepts one between 9-10 millions or that he wants to be highest paid player and demands 11-12 millions. But I think the very likely contract value for him will be anything between 10 and 11 millions.
I also personally agree with most people about value of Leafs big three: Matthews > Marner > Nylander ( though now with Tavares I quess we should talk about big four). So I assume they would like sign those three to long term contracts in that order/priority even though Nylander is the one needing his contract first. And I believe that if one of these players needs to be signed to a bridge contracts due Cap issues it will be Nylander.
This made wonder how much Leafs fans would value Nylander in a situation where he gets and signs an offer sheet that is relatively high but not ridiculous. I don't mean to troll and say that Nylander wants to leave. I actually believe he wants to stay in Toronto and win. Therefore I'm completely exluding here a possibility that he would sign an offer sheet from a team that has no chance of competing in the next few years.
But let's assume that a possible contender (teams like Stars, Sharks, etc...) would make Nylander an offer sheet of 5 x 8.1 millions and offer a role he would like and Nylander signs. For Nylander this would be a nice contract. It would pay him a bit more than he's worth at the moment considering this would buy out mostly his RFA years and he would be in a perfect age (27) to really cash in with his next contract when he will be UFA.
Are there any Leafs fans that would hesitate matching this offer sheet? The compensation would be 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks. But if the the offer sheet is from valid contender those should be late picks in each round.
I assume in a vacuum Leafs would match without hesitation. But it's not so simple if you think about other implications. Paying this much to Nylander might set the floor for Marner long term
contract (or a least make it higher than it would be otherwise), matcing would mean Leafs are paying Nylander this much while they still need to pay Marleau the big bucks, etc. Or it could possibly force leafs to bridge Marner and likely make his long term contract 1-2 millions higher the following years. So maybe Dubas would hesitate to macth???
I think Leafs would still match without blinking but I'm curious to hear if any leafs fans would be willing to let Nylander go in this situation and take the picks instead?
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