John Chayka says heck no and blocks your number.

dude i just looked at your account. You don't even make armchair gm teams. All you do is just comment shitty things... Hey if that gets u off, keep doing u buddy

Nylander pickup is interesting, starting a Swedish duo with Backstrom. Wilson trade seems a bit one sided. I could see Wilson and a second for Merkley or a swap of seconds but I don't think Wilson is a high value asset to get a prospect and a first.

6 x 7500000= 45000000
45000000/5= 9000000
2 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

Nice 21 man roster with no cap. Yep this really works.

what in the name of god is that Arizona trade? A likely lotto pick and N Merkley for the goon and a 2nd?

I think you'd have to give up about 3 1st round picks for anyone to take that awful Wilson contract off your hands. LOL

Also TO would totally match that offer sheet. To successfully offer sheet Nylander, you'll be paying him over 8.5 million a year on a minimum 6 year deal. That would cost 4 1st rounders, which is why it just won't happen.

could not be more false... they are offering him 6. Nylander's ask is around 7. So anything north of 7 is actually well out of the leafs ability

Arizona wouldn't do that IMO.

Take what you want, as these words come from a Sens fan. Brian makes a good point. Dubas and Leaf fans can say they can and will sign the trio and keep Tavares but keep in mind that even if you sign trio to long-term deals, you also need depth players that can keep the puck out of your net. That's hard to find when you have 70% of your cap in 4 forwards and 4 defencemen. A number of teams could offer 8m and the Leafs would be in a tough spot.

But the player needs to sign the offer sheet, I think all of you who want to see an offer sheet forget that fact. And in the case of Nylander, where both the team and the player want a long term deal, its never going to come to an offer sheet. Where offer sheets are possible though is in the case of the depth players. If one of the other young guys on the roster, (Mainly Kapanen and Johnsson) wants even 3 million, one will be either traded or maybe an offer sheet will come for them and they'll be gone.

If the player doesn't get the type of contract he wants from said team... It's not out of this world to think he may sign with another team, is it?

Of course not but now we are talking about speculation and throwing reality out the window.

Here are the only 3 facts that we actually know are real.

Nylander wants a long term deal to play with the leafs.
The Leafs want Nylander signed long term.
Nylander hasn't signed a contract yet.

So only reasonable conclusion based off the information that is actually known is that negotiations are ongoing and working towards what both parties want. Until one side says otherwise, every other "report" is 100% guess work born out of the need to get clicks (media debate) or hope from fans who want to see this player on their team.

I’ll start by saying I fully believe Toronto will sign Nylander, or trade him. But speculation and fictitious trades are the entire point of these AGMs.

In reality, just about every player in this situation will tell media and the fans “Of course I want to stay with [enter team here]” and “I love it here, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else”. My memory isn’t the best but I can’t think of a single player that’s said “Nah, screw this team. I want out”. We as fans and the media don’t know what players and management are actually doing behind the scenes. We get reports that contract talks are ongoing and that it’s only a matter of time, but that's not 100% the truth every time.