bobber
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Clarkson won the lottery in Toronto. He can't lose no matter the outcome. He will be a very rich man thanks to Leafs management. Due diligence. None found here. Shanny will sort it out.
Depends what you consider very little cap penalty.
Leafs would be taking a $28.8 mil cap hit over the next 12 years with the average annual hit of $2.4 mil per. (It actually fluctuates due to its structure) but one or another that is the cap hit.
Here is a good article that breaks it down. http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2...ksons-contract-is-maybe-probably-buyout-proof
The numbers in that article are incorrect. I don't know why you keep citing it. The author himself states that he is guessing.
This is what his buyout would actually look like:
Very small cap relief for the first 5 years (roughly 500K)
Very small cap penalty for the next 5 years (roughly 500K)
Okay for fun lets use your figures.
Clarkson has an actual cap hit of $5.25 mil and in 4 of those first 6 years after buyout the cap hit is $4.694 mil = free cap space of $556k.
If you buyout Clarkson the best you can do is play a Marlie making league minimum $550k (ie Trevor Smith) for the combined buyout advantage.
What value are you seeing with a buyout?.
There's absolutely no financial advantage towards buying him out (hence, "buy-out proof").
But he's a sunk cost. He's already being outplayed by Marlies, and the coaches are hurting the team by giving him minutes that he frankly does not deserve due to his contract.
They screwed up with Clarkson. Now get him off the team and move forward with players that may be capable of contributing in the future.
While Clarkson's contract is not great, he is still producing. He was never going to be a 35 goal scorer. He was supposed to be a 20-25 goal scorer, a character guy, a guy with grit and someone that wanted to be a Leaf. He still is all those things. I would hazard to guess, if he stays healthy that his contract will be the last thing on fans minds 3 years down the road.
Clarkson will be bought out! There is no question about it. Once Nonis is fired, Phaneuf will be gone to.
Just...... wow.
This amazes me.
Seriously, I am bewildered. Baffled. Awe struck at this.
He isnt even physical or gritty. He is a good net presence though, he works hard to get goals but that's it.
NEWARK – "I'm not worried about [years] six and seven right now. I'm worried about [year] one and year one I know we're going to have a very good player ... If David Clarkson doesn't score 30 goals in a Leaf uniform, but provides all the other things that we know he's going to provide we're pretty comfortable we're a better team."
The words promised to haunt the Maple Leafs general manager one day, just not this quickly.
On the fifth day of July in the summer of 2013 Dave Nonis and members of Toronto's since-dismantled management group emerged from the team's offices at the Air Canada Centre to proudly announce their newest addition. It took seven years and more than $36 million to reel in David Clarkson on the free agent market.
Year one was bad, a self-described disaster, and year two really hasn't been much better.
The details are unflattering:
• Clarkson is on pace to amass just 25 points.
• Four hundred and twenty-three players have accumulated more than his five assists so far this season.
• Not one of those five assists was a pass directly resulting in a goal.
• Clarkson holds just a single point in nearly 100 minutes on the power-play, that lone point (a goal) coming on the final day of October.
• Clarkson has gone 39 consecutive games without a power-play point.
• His 22 minor penalties are the sixth-most of any forward in the league.
• He has just two goals in the past 23 games.
All in all, the Leafs just aren't getting value (or anything close to it) from the onerous contract they extended Clarkson and that matters greatly (and painfully) in a cap world. There's just no let-up from contracts of this kind. They squeeze teams in an era of precision and that's precisely what the Clarkson contract has done and will continue to do to the Leafs barring some unlikely escape.
Toronto projects to be tight against the cap again next year as the roster currently stands and that's due in no small part to the $5.25 million annual cap hit of the 29-year-old winger. It's also why they may have to part with assets of value in the summer to clear space.
The Leafs are painfully limited in their options with the Clarkson contract, which has five years still remaining.
They could attempt to trade him, but such a possibility seems unlikely given the size of the contract and limitations of the player (not to mention Clarkson's limited no-trade clause). Bad contracts have been moved before though and perhaps the Leafs can swallow up half of the contract in exchange for another of the calamitous variety.
Just...... wow.
This amazes me.
Seriously, I am bewildered. Baffled. Awe struck at this.
Ok so they made a huge mistake with Clarkson but the problem now is they are force feeding him PP time and top 6 or 9 time to justify the contract.
What a good organization does is understand the mistake and don't make it worse by trying to play the guy more than he deserves.
Play him 4th line minutes and see if he can do PK and that is it.
• Clarkson holds just a single point in nearly 100 minutes on the power-play, that lone point (a goal) coming on the final day of October.
Ok so they made a huge mistake with Clarkson but the problem now is they are force feeding him PP time and top 6 or 9 time to justify the contract.
What a good organization does is understand the mistake and don't make it worse by trying to play the guy more than he deserves.
Play him 4th line minutes and see if he can do PK and that is it.
He's tied for 9th overall in TOI per game with Holland playing under 15 minutes a game and none of the group below them in Smith, Booth, Panik have done anything special.
He's already getting borderline 4th line minutes.
Guys like Winnik, Santo are getting more minutes then Clarkson because they deserve it.
Ok so they made a huge mistake with Clarkson but the problem now is they are force feeding him PP time and top 6 or 9 time to justify the contract.
What a good organization does is understand the mistake and don't make it worse by trying to play the guy more than he deserves.
Play him 4th line minutes and see if he can do PK and that is it.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showpost.php?p=59471167&postcount=655With the year David Clarkson is having, i'd want nothing to do with the contract that guy is going to get.