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NHL Off-season Thread 2019 |OT| You'd still be playing if you had Ryan Reaves
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So like, why doesnt someone just offer sheet Marner and be done with it? Theres enough teams including my own that have either flubbed enough 1st round picks or tend to pick in the lower half that losing 4 1st rounders probably won't change their fates too much.
I wish this would be the way it goes. But maybe no teams want to pay him that much (that have the cap)?
What the fuck is Marner's camp doing? Being greedy, obviously, but what the fuck?
New TV deal, expansion and gambling deals should handily inflate the cap over the next few years. His agent probably wants them to get best percentage of future cap money
He has to sign it, and it sounds like he wants a Werenski deal.
No one in their right mind wants to throw away 4 1sts for 3 years of Marner, after which he'd have arbitration rights and his QO would be something dumb stupid like 11-13M. He could just accept the QO and walk to free agency in 4 years. That's terrifying.
Seravalli with a really good article about how having two RFA's is extra stressful for the Jets. Why every day matters for Jets with Laine and Connor
It was quite alarming to read! So to cheer myself up I went to r/leafs
Ahh that's better.
Good, good... let the hate flow through you.
It was quite alarming to read! So to cheer myself up I went to r/leafs
Ahh that's better.
Good, good... let the hate flow through you.
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I still don't understand how the Leafs sign Marner... They have zero cap space. Even if they only pay him 1 mil for this season, his cap average will still be 9-11 mil which puts them over. They'd have to trade away like 8 players to get under the cap.
Technically you can exceed the cap in the off-season by a certain amount. Once the season starts the Leafs would put Horton and Clarkson on LTIR which will allow them to exceed the cap by $10.5M.
You forget about the capital of cap circumvention, "Rhobidas Island"!
who are DEFINITELY only long-term injured and definitely totally NO retired, they'll return any moment now! aaaaany moment!
oh shit, I forgot they're counting the LTIR contracts... ok, that makes sense now.
pretty much. Just tell him "let's try contract talk NEXT summer. have fun losing out on 10-11mil this year" and hang up. lol. It'd be a tough thing to tell his agent, but the line needs to be drawn somewhere
If he doesn't sign now, I don't think there will be any contract talks next year.
The one caveat is that Chicago signed their accessory players to big money while giving Toews/Kane much less than they deserved. Marner is good enough that he deserves getting paid but yeah... they need to build on that defense too.
A player for every million dollars that Marner declined to play for the Leafs.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEREtNpXoAIz5kb.jpg:large
The list of the players in case anyone is curious.
The list of the players in case anyone is curious.
Well deserving, but also surprised Karlsson isn't there since he's signed for so long haha
What do you mean? The leadership group will let you know how to act and comport yourself in the room, due to the example of their leadership. You'll be handling that leadership so well it will be all you can talk about during media interviews for months.
I'm usually not a fan of term that long, but it's a solid deal. I'll take it.
What a bunch of As.
13 of 15 TSN's latest NHL videos are all Leafs (and I'm guessing 8-10 of them are Marner). Do they plan on covering any other team?
God damn, how did I miss that LOL.
God damn, how did I miss that LOL.