William Nylander Part XV

[Nineteen67]

Not for a looong time.

It’s too prohibitive to offer sheet most players.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

According to Twitter, Willy just landed in Zurich...

even if that's true, which I doubt, it doesn't really mean anything. it could've been someone with the same name

 

[Nineteen67]

According to Twitter, Willy just landed in Zurich...

Do we know the tail number of his plane?

Someone needs to follow him on flight tracker

 

[Maximus74]

We have a ton of cap space this year. If we signed Willy to a massive 1-year $12 million contract, how soon could we extend him at say 6x6?
$48 million over 7 years is more than fair and gets the long term cap hit down.

 

[egd27]

According to Twitter, Willy just landed in Zurich...

Last plane from Sweden landed 90 mins ago. Maybe he can't afford first class and it took him awhile to deplane and get through customs.

Do we know the tail number of his plane?

Someone needs to follow him on flight tracker

SK1605

 

[LeafSteel]

According to Twitter, Willy just landed in Zurich...

Stop over for connecting flight to Toronto????

 

[dangomon]

According to Twitter, Willy just landed in Zurich...

Someone heard "Mr. William Nylander come to the desk" (or something like that). People are reaallllllly reaching now. At least wait for someone to see the damn guy, those blonde locks are unmistakable.

 

[I am Canadian]

The tweet in discussion. There is a flight to Moscow tonight and a flight to Toronto in the morning. Take it with a grain of salt.

 

[IBeL34f]

We have a ton of cap space this year. If we signed Willy to a massive 1-year $12 million contract, how soon could we extend him at say 6x6?
$48 million over 7 years is more than fair and gets the long term cap hit down.

Willy would be unable to sign a new contract before January 1, which would be a risk (though less and less of one by the day, at this point).
However, the Leafs' qualifying offer to Nylander following a 1-year, $12M contract would also be $12M, so I'm not sure what incentive Nylander would have to take a 6x6 deal at that point. He'd have the chance to make half of that $48M you mentioned over only 2 seasons.

 

[Stigma]

The tweet in discussion. There is a flight to Moscow tonight and a flight to Toronto in the morning. Take it with a grain of salt.

This thread has gone from tedious to awesome very quickly!

 

[Nineteen67]

The tweet in discussion. There is a flight to Moscow tonight and a flight to Toronto in the morning. Take it with a grain of salt.

Well there’s proof. He signed with Zurich old for 8 mill per season.

Wish him well.

 

[TheMadHatTrick]

We have a ton of cap space this year. If we signed Willy to a massive 1-year $12 million contract, how soon could we extend him at say 6x6?
$48 million over 7 years is more than fair and gets the long term cap hit down.

That's an interesting idea. Not sure if that would be cap circumvention though. Signing him to a 1 year 11M this season then next off season for 6 years at 6.5M per essentially brings the total to 7.1M per year.

 

[I am Canadian]

That's an interesting idea. Not sure if that would be cap circumvention though. Signing him to a 1 year 11M this season then next off season for 6 years at 6.5M per essentially brings the total to 7.1M per year.

I don't see why it would be cap circumvention but Nylander would be risking like 40M+ if he had a career ending injury.

 

[TheMadHatTrick]

I don't see why it would be cap circumvention but Nylander would be risking like 40M+ if he had a career ending injury.

That's why I said I don't know. It could be I suggested because it would appear that there was some kind of handshake agreement that he would take more now and less later. Basically you're performing extra-legal maneuvers to arrive at a desired result.

 

[nuck]

Well there’s proof. He signed with Zurich old for 8 mill per season.

Wish him well.

That would be the entire salary budget for two clubs Still there are rumored to be some $1M players in that league. He could be meeting some Euro clubs just to hear their pitches but he has no hope of coming close to NHL money in any other league and he doesn't dodge any seasons of Leaf control. It would be a crazy outcome if it happened.

 

[Tavares to Marner]

Well Cya Nylander this is prolly it

 

[Nineteen67]

That's an interesting idea. Not sure if that would be cap circumvention though. Signing him to a 1 year 11M this season then next off season for 6 years at 6.5M per essentially brings the total to 7.1M per year.

It would be close. If memory serves, I don’t think they can even talk about a 2 nd contract before the first contract is signed.

 

[freewilly]

it's the same concept people mentioned for JT. play one year at 15 million (or whatever) then sign a new deal at like 7 ( or whatever) for the remaining years. he gets the same cash total, we get a better cap hit.

 

[Pookie]

Only if you artificially restrict the evaluation period to the length of the alternative contract, weight the opportunity cost of the term forgone higher than everything before and everything after, and ignore exit strategy/ leverage.

Pay the minimum now for an asset and the max later.

Great strategy.

 

[Pookie]

Apparently it is brutal to the Leafs but no one else.

Other teams have had to trade players to make the cap work.

Why should we be any different?

 

[Pookie]

it's the same concept people mentioned for JT. play one year at 15 million (or whatever) then sign a new deal at like 7 ( or whatever) for the remaining years. he gets the same cash total, we get a better cap hit.

Guess he’s not a team guy. Not willing to take that risk eh?

 

[shakes]

I don't see why it would be cap circumvention but Nylander would be risking like 40M+ if he had a career ending injury.

And the Leafs would be risking having to qualify him for 12 million dollars next year or lose him for nothing. It would be so incredibly stupid for the Leafs to do that. Nylander would jump all over that offer.

 

[Throw More Waffles]

If career ppg is irrelevant, how are you making a determination that Pasta>>>>>>Ehlers>Nylander?

Pasta got 34 goals, 70 points on the last year of his elc. Nylander got 20 goals 60 points on the last year of his elc.

This isn’t rocket science.

 

[Menzinger]

The tweet in discussion. There is a flight to Moscow tonight and a flight to Toronto in the morning. Take it with a grain of salt.

Remember folks, once something is posted in the internet it’s 100% true and proven. Nobody ever, ever, ever posts false info

 

[Not My Tempo]

Quick someone start tracking flights!!!