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I’m kinda digging Uggie’s theory that it is MiB and Meltzer handing out the bans – it’s really the only thing that makes sense.
Corry Perry at 34 scored 5 goals and was always injured, Tavares just scored 38. is a Center and still a point a game.
I agree once JT is a 10 goal 30 point player, he should be getting 1mil deals. but thats not reality for him right now.JT has been exactly what you expect over the 7 years. If you were expecting awards and scoring titles, thats probably on you
Congrats on Tavares scoring 38 regular season goals at 34 years old. How many playoff goals did he score at 34 years old? Oh, the same as Perry? 5? With a 10 million dollar difference in salary? Wow!
Corey Perry, at 34, played 27 playoff games, scored 5 playoff goals and made it to the Cup Final. What did Tavares do against Florida? Oh right, disappeared offensively and sucked balls defensively.
Corey Perry, at 35, played 22 playoff games, scored 10 points and made it to the Cup Final on a Montreal team that beat the Leafs after they collapsed and blew a 3-1 series lead.
Corey Perry, at 36, played 23 playoff games, scored 6 playoff goals and made it to the Cup Final on Tampa Bay, that also beat the Leafs.
Corey Perry, at 38 and 39, went to the Cup Final with Edmonton, scoring a total of 11 playoff goals and 17 playoff points.All those seasons without ever making more than 1.5 AAV, sometimes as low as 775K.
I can guaran-fucking-tee you Tavares won’t be playing 119 playoff games with 28 playoff goals from 35-40, especially at 5-7 AAV a year. Why is that a guarantee? Because from the day he was drafted, up to 34, he only played 75 playoff games with 28 career playoff goals. He couldn’t do it at his best, he won’t be doing shit as he approaches 40.
If a player is the 2nd highest paid player in the NHL, there should be some kind of success otherwise that’s definitely on stupid management.
He can have his regular season stats, he’ll disappear again like he did against Florida. You keep defending a player who absolutely sucks at living up to his hype. Have fun.
Out of Floridas last 10 drafts (63 picks) they have 1 player on the team that had any impact on the cup wins. Lundell thats 2015-2024
Wrong again, as you were with the Leafs 1st round record the past 10-12 years.
The problem you have is you absolutely fail to see how Florida has elite asset management skills. When they give something up, they get fair (or greater) value in return. They find free stars all the time.
To start, they used 13th overall, Spencer Knight, to acquire Seth Jones. Eetu Luostarinen was acquired by trading their 3rd round pick of Trocheck. Good drafting turned into good trades. Just like they got Tkachuk for Huberdeau.
Need more examples? Great. There are plenty more.
Acquired Sam Reinthart for peanuts; 7th round pick Devon Levi and a 1st. Notice how when the Leafs trade a prospect and a 1st round pick they get dog shit like Laughton in return? Or a rental that plays 20 games? Not Florida.
Same thing they did to acquire Sam Bennett; Emil Heineman, 2nd round pick + another 2nd round pick. Again, when the Leafs throw away 2nd round picks, they get rentals, they didn’t get Bennett.
Marchand? Conditional 2nd round pick. Not even a fucking 1st.
Carter Verhaeghe? Free. Gustav Forsling? Free.
Even their “mistakes” of signing a goalie to a 10 million dollar contract turned out to not be a mistake, unlike when the Leafs did it with Tavares.
When the Leafs can hit that many home runs in trades, waiver wire and UFA signings, then they can afford to absolutely suck balls at drafting. Unfortunately, the Leafs absolutely suck at all three.
So if the Leafs don’t resign JT, do they move Nylander to #2C?
Knies Matthews Domi/??P.Kane??
McMann Nylander Domi/??P.Kane??
Pacioretty/??Jeannot?? Holmberg/Kampf ??E. Kane??
Lorentz Laughton ??B. Tanev??¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nylander can not play center in the NHL. He’s physically weak, horrible defensively and can’t win face-offs. Nylander is a one dimensional, offensive winger. That’s it. He’s a better Phil Kessel. End of story.
That entire line-up is just one giant mess of a defensive liability after another. Absolute opposite of a Berube team.
Leafs got picks #64,84,137,153,185 and 217 coming up this Friday and Saturday draft.
Are they going to add or subtract from those numbers.
I wonder the Leafs could get E. Kane + a 3rd round pick in 2026 form the Oliers as a possible cap dump for pick #84This will give the Oilers some cap space to go after Swayman.
I would happily trade every single Leafs pick in the draft, and I literally mean every single pick if necessary, if it meant the Leafs could bring in Jenner and McBain to play 2C and 3C. The odds of the Leafs being able to actually draft and develop any players from 64th and beyond is next to zero. I’d rather just go all the way with it and bring in two guaranteed guys in their mid 20s you will play on this team for at least the next 3-5 years so that you still have a crack at success with Matthews still on the team.
Evander Kane, much like Patrick Kane, is a liability at this stage of his career. He’s often injured, wrong side of 30 and way too expensive. I’d take Patrick and Evander Kane at 2 million each but not a penny more. Simply not worth it anymore. If the Oilers couldn’t win a Cup with Evander Kane at 5+ AAV, the Leafs won’t be able to either.
time will tell who is wrong … in your mind I’m wrong, in mine, I’m correct.
Time has already proven you, among many other Leafs fans and the Leafs management wrong.
When Tavares arrived he was the 2nd highest paid player in the NHL, in his prime.
What did he actually accomplish in 7 years?
No awards. Didn’t lead the league in anything. Won one playoff series. Lost seven. Less points than every other core player. Biggest defensive liability too.
How the hell can anyone possibly think he’s worth another chance at 35+ if he’s making anything more than 2 million a year as a pure passenger depth piece?
Corey Perry is the model for how Tavares would be useful to a team going forward. But not at 5-7 million a year. Not anymore.
I disagree with your assessment of JT. He was ok with whom he played with. The 2nd line was missing a good 2LW.
If the Leafs had better 2LW than Holmberg or McMann, things could of been better for them but they did not.You are free to disagree and be wrong.
The LW situation does suck but isn’t a strong enough reason for the way they disappeared after Game 3. Especially on the PP for which there is no excuse of having any weak players on the ice.
You can’t have Tavares on the same line or even team as Nylander. They are the same type of player. Both defensively inept and offensively streaky. Nylander wins because he is younger and Tavares offensively disappeared vs the Panthers.
It’s great news that Tavares wants more than 5 AAV and hopefully he’s gone because he sucked at his best, he’ll be useless on his next contract as he approaches 40.
Would love Tavares to sign the Duchene deal
Too bad they both absolutely suck balls in the playoffs, especially defensively.
And that’s exactly why this team will continue to lose.
interesting business model for the interwebs that????
ban all of your users ????????
we’ll see how it works out i suppose ????
Or it could be Mike banning the regulars so they come here instead. Makes no sense that number of people are getting banned for literally no good reason.
That why the Leafs get some of their player(s) into commercials.
Those bullshit commercials don’t pay nearly what people think they do. And again, 55% of it is taken away.
Nashville is a nice place for tax evasion since that state has no state income tax.
Utah, Florida, Tampa, Nashville, Dallas, Vegas…lots of great options for players. Don’t blame them one bit for leaving because it’s by far, way better to live in all those places too.
speaking of bonuses. JT won his case vs. The CRA as The CRA did not want to disclose the audit criteria errr something like that. So the judge dropped the case.
For future cap crunching and tax dodging, the Leafs should set up a shell corp. in no income states, get their Canadian players US citizenship and pay them big signing bonus’ like they did with Matthews. If the NHL won’t change the rules, then the Leafs have to get creative and find ways around them.
