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Chayka is cleaning house……
Which would be better if he himself was a great GM capable of hiring other great people.
Hayley Wickenheiser was a DEI hire so no big loss there.
yup. I was going say something of the sorts but did not.
So Matthews next contract will be 20M over 5 yrs. Well maybe not 20M cap hit but it will be up there now.just because the a coach doesn’t have NHL experience doesn’t mean he’s not qualified to coach in the NHL.
There’s a very big difference between being “qualified” to be a coach on a terrible team and being qualified to coach a successful team. Which coach showed up with zero experience and just won a Cup with a lottery team? A lot of coaches are former players who skip the process but that ends up creating bad coaches with Gretzky as the most obvious examples and Patrick Roy as an example of a guy who could coach in junior but falling flat in the NHL.
Very few coaches fall into that category of just showing up in the NHL and being amazing Cup winning coaches. The majority work their way up the ranks and experience is clearly more valuable than praying a random rookie coach does an elite job with no prior pro experience.
Paul Maurice spent 7 years in the OHL before he got a chance in the NHL. Spent another 20+ years (13 years missing the playoffs) before he won Cups in Florida.
Mike Sullivan spent 7 years coaching in the AHL before he won two Cups back-to-back with Pittsburgh.
Jon Cooper was GM/Head Coach in the NAHL for five years, AHL head coach for 3 years then became head coach of the Lightning.
Rod the Bod is the best coach in the NHL right now and he was an assistant for 7 years before he was a head coach. And then it took him another 8 years to win a Cup.
Werenka, was a stupid hire to be an assistant coach on the bench with his three years at the University of Calgary as experience. He’s literally never coached pro hockey, ever. Going from USports to the NHL is a jump. How is that any improvement over Mike Van Ryn? Or Lalonde who has two Cups as an assistant and coached the only part of the Leafs that was actually successful, their top 10 ranked PK. You can still hire Werenka as an analytics coach and use him like a video coach but to be behind the bench with plenty of other qualified, experienced, winners available is just retarded.
Can you imagine what Bedard and Celebrini are going to command? Over $20M per season on a 4 year deal. They’re now mercenaries who’ll go where the money is. This also means that low tax states have a hugely distinct advantage over the Canadian and Blu States. Now look at Knies, signed long term, only 23 and no trade protection. When a team has more than one of these type of players, making north of $20M on a shorter term contract, it’s going to put them in Cap hell and they’ll come calling on the Leafs and Knies. You can score a franchise changing player, even up for the lower contract of Knies. The other scenario is keeping Knies on the cheap contract, moving a Matthews and add a Superstar, $20M player for that rebuild.
You really gotta stop using this term mercenaries for players as if this started two weeks ago. Players have been going to the highest bidder since free agency was invented. It’s not new, it’s just how the market works.
Matthews and Nylander @ 50% retain would give the Leafs the biggest boatload of rebuild assets ever seen in Leafs history. If they shit themselves in the first half of this year, trade everybody starting in January and reap the rewards.
Can you imagine what Bedard and Celebrini are going to command? Over $20M per season on a 4 year deal. They’re now mercenaries who’ll go where the money is. This also means that low tax states have a hugely distinct advantage over the Canadian and Blu States. Now look at Knies, signed long term, only 23 and no trade protection. When a team has more than one of these type of players, making north of $20M on a shorter term contract, it’s going to put them in Cap hell and they’ll come calling on the Leafs and Knies. You can score a franchise changing player, even up for the lower contract of Knies. The other scenario is keeping Knies on the cheap contract, moving a Matthews and add a Superstar, $20M player for that rebuild.
Hey its nice to see other teams have to deal with 21yo getting massive contracts to muddy up the contending window.
just did a quick scan of some of the best players contracts, and someone like Nate Mackinnon is 30 and still has 5 years left on his 12.6
if he signed a 4 or 5 year deal instead and would be a UFA now or next season, he would get 20mil x 7 in sure or something like that.
makes me curious what 33yo UFA Kucherov getsyup. I was going say something of the sorts but did not.
So Matthews next contract will be 20M over 5 yrs. Well maybe not 20M cap hit but it will be up there now.I was talking about Steve Sullivan wanting the head coaching experience but whatever move the goalposts whatever way you want. We get it. We are all retards and you know absolutely everything.
I am fully aware you were talking about Steve Sullivan. But the only reason he is taking the Marlies job is because he lost his NHL job, not because his first choice was the Marlies. That’s called a demotion everywhere except in retard land. The Leafs already gave him a job with limited experience and then demoted him. It wasn’t his choice to go to the Marlies because he simply took what he could get which was a demotion.
If the Leafs were putting their financial advantage to good use, they would be grossly overpaying David Carle to be the Marlies coach. Pay that guy 5 million a year to coach in the AHL if you have to and just wait to promote him. That’s the top prospect in coaching and the Leafs should be bringing him into the fold with their financial might, at any cost.
But, instead, they hire Steve Sullivan because Leafs gonna Leaf.
so the Ducks matched the offere sheet to Carlsson.
Gauthier, gonna want most likely the same type of contract
and there goes Anaheim cap spaceHey its nice to see other teams have to deal with 21yo getting massive contracts to muddy up the contending window.
just did a quick scan of some of the best players contracts, and someone like Nate Mackinnon is 30 and still has 5 years left on his 12.6
if he signed a 4 or 5 year deal instead and would be a UFA now or next season, he would get 20mil x 7 in sure or something like that.
makes me curious what 33yo UFA Kucherov gets
