This is an issue in Toronto as a market, a guy gets a month of good will from fans and media and MLSE makes an emotional signing.
For a team that is cap pressed they have to stop handing bottom six forwards money. At some point you have to stop burning cap room. Leafs will pay the Bobby McMann tax next year when they have to give up a 2027 3rd for a '3 way deal' to get that 500k back in cap space on a deal when they trade for a 7th defenseman.
Good for Bobby, everyone loves him today, we'll see in month or two if he's forgotten and resented like every Bobby McMann in Toronto.
This franchise never learns.