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Thank god the Leafs didn’t overpay to keep Marner like this.
The fact there is only one poster who spews his garbage on here daily about how the Leafs should have overpaid Marner (who by the way didn’t want to stay anyway) simply shows the vast majority of Leaf fans are fine with the Leafs not making this same type of mistake with Marner.
And to preemptively respond to the “Marner left because of the fans, media, crime blah blah blah” – suck it up buttercup. Marner is the poster child for spoiled, soft kids. He has been told his entire life he was special and better than everyone else and when he wasn’t he took his ball and ran away to somewhere new where they told him what he wanted to hear.
Great player but spoiled brat.
If he was a pro athlete in a single person sport with the talent he has he may have had far more success but he’s not built to be a team player and it became more and more obvious as his time in Toronto came to an end.
Oh Marner would have cost a fortune to stick around for the $7.5 mill take home he gets in Nevada. In Ontario (and yes they are paid game by game so I’m keeping this very simple but it’s a truth) to get that he’d have to be making $16 mill. With advertising and only taking on 43 games in Ontario sure it would be closer to $15 but still, $13.5 in Toronto does not get him even close to what he now earns in Vegas.
Most importantly the leafs are a more well rounded team playing a more physical game. Yes Berube adjusted his coaching style last year because who the fuck wouldn’t when you have Marner in the lineup but both him and the GM weren’t going to continue that style unless Marner signed the deal that they drew the line on, and Marner didn’t.
Minnesota Wild dropping huge cash AND term on a 28 year old who will be 37 when his 17M per year contract ends and who has never scored 50 goals in a single season is a pretty ballsy move for sure.
Mc Jesus will get 18M per year or more now guaranteed.
Minnesota is a highly taxed state, nearly the same as Alberta total (46.5% in Minnie and 48% in Alberta, still better than Ontario’s 53.53% thanks Dougie) so I’m guessing that’s why it was so high. Still it’s over a $9 mill take home, I know it’s not the nicest place to live but damn, $2 mill more of a take home than Marner to keep him there? Yikes.
I recently ate at “The Squire”? across from the arena when I was in London with the kids for the Korn concert. Downtown was looking rough….or so it seemed…maybe all the construction?
Oh no, downtown London is garbage, even McDonald’s left. Basically anything outside of the arena and Covent Garden Market block is drug user world… sure there is a couple decent spots if you can handle going down there but a lot of people just won’t.
The city needs to figure out how to get the junkies and homeless (both the good and bad ones) out of the area if they ever truly hope for the city core to come alive again.
ELC contract years will start being used up because he’s 20, yes, but it wouldn’t if he was still 18 or 19. But he still has never played pro hockey yet. As I have said elsewhere, Nylander, as a rookie, only last 22 games after 2/3 years playing pro level hockey at his age. Cowan needs top-six minutes in the AHL. Playing 8 minutes in the NHL is a waste of his development time, even if it isn’t wasting his contract years.
Ahhhh ok so by waste of a year you’re simply talking about how he’s being used, ok got it. Thanks for clarifying that for me.
Maybe the Leafs are quite simply in the now or never mode. Prospect and pick depth is notably weak, and where will this team be when Matthews’ contract is up? The backend will be notably older, same with their starter, JT isn’t leaving, so use whatever is best now. I mean why build the kid up in the minors? To have some core basically around Nylander, Knies, and him if Matthews chooses to leave? If that does happen having that kid with experience would likely make him more tradeable as he’d be at least in the middle six by then anyways. It will be rebuild time.
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I don’t know what’s going on either lol
Quick FYI, ELC contract years still get used up in the AHL. So Cowan gets a new contract in 2028 one way or another. Looked into that last night and that’s how it works. Leafs or Marlies has zero to do with his current contract.
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the Leafs have cut a good chunk of there roster.
they are mostly the Marlies playersSeems like they’ve pretty much have their roster pretty much decided so long as nothing severe happens over the next few days. The starting lineup is supposed to get Thursday’s game (according to the media) and what is leftover will cover Saturday’s. Be interesting to see what happens after that. Who gets moved, who gets put on waivers, etc.
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That’s a FANTASTIC price for the guy who lead the league in SV% the last two years.Tendies are locked up for the next few years, D is too (granted, they’re a little long in the tooth), and we have 16-18M to bring in some (A?) nice pieces next year.
In Brad and Woll and Stollie we trust!
The D is a bit older but not ancient either so I’m not worried about them for a couple of years so long as the forwards backcheck decently they should be fine.
I like the goalie signing, not too long and not too expensive so it fell within what I felt was reasonable for him.
I’m liking that Cowan is looking like he made the team at least to start the season too, people might be freaking out that he should be starting in the AHL in a top 6 roll but that’s not how things tick for that guy, even for the Knights he started off in a bottom six roll and worked his way up. With him he might be too good for the AHL and he simply won’t develop anything down there. He might simply be one of those types who needs to develop in the NHL by working his way up the lineup. I’ll even give UG credit tho, there is still a concern here and that’s how well this kid will last over an entire pro season, 4th line minutes should help that, but we shall see.
Plus Jays and Europe
Yup, and I actually got to catch the jays game while sitting at the bar of Fatty Patty’s here in London enjoying a couple pints because my gf was craving their beef dip and fries. So I got to watch that game there so long as I brought that home afterwards lol. Pints are so much nicer than cans, and that place has good food so having it within walking distance is very nice.
And seeing Europe get The Ryder Cup was sweet too.
Very good sports day!
Stolarz is here for awhile at a decent price ????
