He’s one of the few guys whose effort I can’t fault on a night to night basis. He’s pretty steady, was maybe overpaid on his last contract, but is underpaid now.
A lot of people seem to forget he got caught in the overpaid years most long term contracts have due to the cap lock down due to Covid. If that didn’t happen by the end of his contract the cap would have been significantly higher and he wouldn’t have seemed as overpaid at all, I mean come on, he’s still a PPG guy ffs.
So is he a leaf? Yup. He gave them a big time discount because of what happened with his last contract. Sure he has a minor NTC of 5 teams on the last two years but I’m willing to bet that’s not for him to go to a competitor but if he sees that he’s a burden and the leafs need the cap space. He’ll just choose some quiet little place where he won’t get marketed.