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Yeah, for sure, but he was also hurt all of last year.
The Marner Saga is over thankfully, and we can move on.[/quote]
What was Matthews reason the previous years?
Marner isnt solely responsible for the leafs failings, not at all. He simply had to go due to cap and that they have too many similarly soft players making over $10m
We already overpaid matthews (twice) and couldnt afford to overpay marner again.Marner will be missed in the reg season and games 1-4 in the playoffs for sure, specially once matthews goes down again for another injury.
But it was time for a change.
Hopefully the 2nd/3rd/4th liners we replaced him with, improve our depth and depth scoring.10!
going for 11 in a row, team record is 11 (5 times)
In 2015, they did it twice apparently.
They’ll lose soon enough, but the key will be to not lose multiple games in a rowAnd Nylander’s “stop bitching bro” the year prior.
Two years of this nonsense, that’s how long Bitch Marner was jerking everyone around.
Good riddance.
Plan the parade, 2026. Book it.
Not sure who he was referencing, but I hope it was about himself as well, matthews has been a disappointment in the playoffs as much as mitch
Bitch Marner cancels his charity golf tournament for “uncertain summer plans”, but yet Hyman’s still running his with a broken wrist, even though he can’t play.
Fuck Marner. Good riddance.
Meh, marner bailed on the leafs, why bother continuing another charity golf tournament?
No biggie.Bye Mitch
Bye Leafs chances at winning a Cup.[/quote]
The leafs chances of winning a cup with marner were already low, so whats the difference.
In fact the past 9 years proved, the leafs COULDNT win a cup with how this team was made up.Its really simple
Must be why Marner was involved in winning 3 games against Florida. Funny because Kucherov, McDavid and Matthews each had 1 or less goal vs. Florida. But Marner’s the one who can’t play well in the playoffs though…[/quote]
No marner isnt the only one who cant play well in games 5 – 7, but we’re stuck with matthews and marner was an FA…and HE DIDNT WANT TO STAY.So he left.
Isn’t he terrible defensively? I’m not as worried about the offense from our forward group, we need at least some defensive forwards. Matthews and Knies are fine, but JT, Nylander, Robertson, MM, Domi, Robertson, etc. are pretty terrible. People (myself included) kinda want to move on from Kampf and Jarny, but if you replace them with purely offensive forwards, this team is in for a world of hurt.[/quote]
MM was good defensively
Depth offense (and our star offense)is what has hurt us in the playoffs in the past.
Id prefer to keep Jarny over kampf but Tre extended kampf so he may stay over jarny.
But I dont mind seeing either or both go.I read the Leafs may have a hand shake deal in place with Roslovic. The Leafs would like to move a body or two before bring him in to the team.
Don’t forget they have Robertson as well to deal with.[/quote]Really?
They have the cap space to sign him without moving anyone out.
He’s never had more than 45pts in a season…so he shouldnt (better not) cost that muchAll this without Varsho and Santander (who has sucked).
Barger has been a good success so far, hope he continues to be a legitimate 3rd basement.But honestly, Vlad is great defensively….he’s just not where he needs to be offensively yet.
This is why I’m saying we’re finally hitting that point when players are starting to care. Marner wants $7 million take home. At $12 mill he gets that in Vegas where he wouldn’t in Toronto. Fans seem to believe players care more about their cap hit than their earnings for some reason, do you care more about what you cost your employer than what you earn?[/quote]
Of course this is true….players arent concerned about their cap….for the most part.
I’d throw a giant hypothetical at this and it goes to the culture that was also being referenced (and don’t get me wrong – I agree that it’s easier to take “less” when you’re still making more – like a $10m between Toronto and Tampa is roughly $6.3m in take home in Tampa compared to about $4.7m in Toronto but there are deferrals and shelters and blah, blah, blah – but it makes a difference).
The hypothetical I always ask myself is what if they never signed Tavares – or if he REALLY had wanted to come home and settled at around $9m. The cap being flat was an unforeseen obstacle and it definitely hurt the team and that’s where the wheels definitely wobbled – but the year after they signed Tavares the cap rose by a predictable 3.6% ($2m) but the salaries of Marner and Matthews were $10.9 and $11.6 – in direct response to Tavares’ $11m. That year – and it was before the flat cap – we jettisoned Kapanen and Johnsson to ensure we had room for those contracts as well as giving away Connor Brown to get Ottawa to take Zaitsev. I have never really thought losing Kapanen or Johnsson was a big deal but I lament Brown a lot. Regardless of that rabbit hole I could spend tons of time exploring, the flat cap hurt – the following years would have (at a 3.5% increase year over year) offered additional cap space of $2.9m, $5.9m, $8m and $10.2m before this past season (which would have also fallen $9m short of that projected growth – it actually catches up in 2026-27’s projected $104m cap).
I only mention the flat cap numbers to note that the Leafs were affected by it – but it was only a part of the problem. If Marner made $9m and Matthews made $10.5m and Tavares made $9.5 – just, again, as a hypothetical – there’s $4.5m annually in overexpenditure, and you can see where I think the problem started. As soon as they overpaid Tavares, flat cap or not, they were up against it.[/quote]
In the above hypothetical, you are letting the old GM of the leafs, Marner and Matthews off the hook. JT’s contract as an FA shouldnt have increased Marner and Matthews second contract as much as it apparently did. Even with JT as 11, neither matthews or marner were worth over 10 per….they simply hadnt won anything…granted neither did JT, but he was an FA and apparently turned down 13millies elsewhere.
Dubas just did a horrible job negotiating the contracts; Marner should have signed for 8, matthews 9.5 for the term they signed. The money they got should have come with an 8 year term. Then we wouldnt be in this situation now.
Willy was 7.4…reduced to 6.9 because he sat out.
Marner at 8
Matthews at 9.5I think the playoff results would have been different with the extra cap.
Ifs and butts…ah well.yes of course. You keep him a Leaf forever if he wants to stay.
Washington would have been morons to trade Ovy because he didnt win a cup in 12 seasons.there is a handfull of players (in the league) you never move, and AM is one of them..imo[/quote]
Meh, Matthews is no OV.
If after 12 years, he still disappears in playoff games 5 – 7, Im ok with not paying $15 – $17m for him and moving on.What numbers are you using?
Florida: $12 x 0.63 = $7.56
Ontario: $12 x 0.4647 = $5.58
You might want to relearn the calculator.
Florida taxation: 37%
Ontario taxation: 53.53%[/quote]Like I said, I used the forbes tax calculator…I simply entered the salary, single person and selected area.
As previously mentioned, “not sure how accurate it is”Also, you have the exchange rate as well. the USD goes much further here……for now.
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Bro, are you serious?!?! If your boss said to you “we’re making some changes and you’ll be taking home 15% less,” you’d just be cool with that?!?!
That’s $1.2M per year! On an 8 year contract, that’s almost $10M!!! Nobody can convince me that doesn’t give some teams a HUGE advantage.[/quote]
To us yes of course thats huge and in general its a lot money.
But if youre an FA who has already made $50m in his career…or more…taking home another $51.2m vs $60m might not be as huge of a loss if one team provided a better chance to win.
Unfortunately for the leafs, the team that provides more take home money is also the team the has a better chance to win.
Just not sure how accurate the forbes tax calculator is…so numbers could be different
