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I mean word was that Marner wanted $14m to stay here but is willing to take $12m in Vegas where they also don’t have state tax – which pretty much equates to the tax difference between the two places.
Bettman is – and always has been – a lying prick. These are the areas with the lowest overall tax rates: Dallas, Seattle, Vegas, Nashville, Tampa Bay and Florida. Now a nice climate is hard to beat – but LA has a great climate and everyone isn’t clamouring to go there with one of the higher tax rates. Winning is important and that is likely why Nashville and Seattle aren’t attracting a ton of talent – but as much as I thought Trotz was a decent coach, he’s proving to be an inept GM; and now that Ron Francis is out in Seattle, let’s see if Jason Botterill can do much – but he didn’t impress anyone very much in Buffalo.
But if you can put together a winning team, attracting talent sure is a lot easier where the money goes 20% further.
It’s actually closer to 16.5 AAV in Toronto for 12 AAV in Vegas. 14 AAV in Toronto would have been a discount for Marner.
No surprise he didn’t go to California. He can visit from Vegas but he’s way better off in every way in Vegas. Good for him.
Wrong. Panthers are going to be the same and the Leafs took them to 7
Even the Leafs took them to game seven does not means they been almost as good as Panthers.
It is not for the first time the Leafs taking teams to game 7, but outcome is always the same.If they played better defense in Game 3 (which is what you get if you remove Tavares and Rielly and replace them with two-way 2C and 3C) they can win that game and the series.
They won 3 games. No matter how you want to describe it, they were closer than anybody else. And now they just blew it away.
The leafs have been bounced for 9 years straight in the 1st or 2nd round. So no difference.
Only now we dont have to watch marner float for the final 3 games of a playoff round.Wrong. Panthers are going to be the same and the Leafs took them to 7. If they dumped Tavares and Rielly, brought in two-way centers to play 2C and 3C via trade, they could have had a chance.
This team is just going to be stitched together with pieces of scrap held together with chewing gum.
No QO for Holmberg
Addition by subtraction then paying 3.25 AAV for his replacement.
Marchand for 6 years is hilarious.
Won’t matter. They stay the best in the Division and in the East, probably win at least 1 more Cup in the next 3 years.
Leafs getting worse, Tampa Bay isn’t a problem for them, nobody else in the division is even close.
Leafs will get bounced in the 1st and 2nd round until Matthews leaves next as a UFA.
The only issue for the Panthers is if Bob plays his age at 37+. But once they clear his 10 AAV, they’ll easily be able to afford another goalie.
Fuck, Provorov staying in CBUS.
Dodged a bullet. He sucks for 30 points at that price. We already have Rielly.
Hyper also said he doesn’t know how Marchand doesn’t wind up with the Leafs, so he’s an idiot.
Well he was probably right because Marchand used the Leafs as leverage so the Panthers gave him a 6 year deal. If they didn’t, he’d probably abuse the Leafs for a 3 year, 7.5+ AAV deal.
Players, if they’re smart, always use the Leafs and the media as a leverage point and it usually works.
Friedman is reporting that they are closing in on a 6 year $32m deal – so $5.3m . . . 6 YEARS? He’s 37 now, so it’s a 35+ contract that isn’t really buriable and will count against the cap for all 6 years – if he retires at 40, there’s 3 years of $5.3m against the cap. Yeesh. That’s a . . . commitment.
If they win one more Cup in the next 3 years, they won’t care. Cap will probably be at 115-120 million by year 4 or 5.
Vegas doesn’t mess around. They know what they want, then get it, then they discard what they’re bored with.
Exactly why the Leafs, with their infinite budget, should have thrown the boat at McPhee to jump ship as President of Hockey Ops.
Instead, we got a retarded Shanahan for 10 years and now his flunky assistant GM who ran Calgary into the ground and is going to do the same here.
Looks like Marchand is going back Florida.
Big surprise.
Kyper is saying Kadri is coming back to Toronto.
They’ll have to be creative (and so will Marchand) b/c if they dump Rodrigues they’ll have 7.9M with 10F, 6D and 1G. A goalie, a 7th dman, and an 11th fwd is going to eat up $3M minimum so Marchand would have to be under $5M. They’ll just sign someone else if he wants to get paid and they’ll add another big name at the deadline to fit under the cap.
Not too creative, they’d just have to make the deal longer to lower the cap hit so they can squeeze in league minimum veterans like Pacioretty looking to win a Cup on a stacked team.
They’ll have no problems getting the lower line-up filler if they keep all their big fish.
$12M x 8 isn’t bad. Maybe renege on the trade and keep Marner, lol.
Maybe when Toronto doesn’t have an insane tax rate, that could happen.
And there goes Marner.
Leafs officially idiots.
They can’t afford more than $1M with some bonuses that count against next year. He’s gone.
They have 4.9 AAV, 9.4 if they dump Rodrigues and Boqvist.
It’s manageable.
I’d rather get something than nothing and Roy is a decent 3C option.
He’s bad at FOs. He’s a bad center. His last 2 most recent playoff runs were rather meh, 2 goals and 4 points in his last 18 playoff games, one brutal 5 min major vs. the Oilers in OT. There’s a reason Vegas is giving up on him. He’s the next Laughton.
