Why is Marner only getting 6 years? At that cap hit, he better be locked up for 8.

Good job. And with Mareleau probably ending his career after it should end decently well.

would you sign for 8 if ur marner? i wouldnt

I hope no one needs a day off or gets injured. Since they have no backups or more players on D. If Johnsson has a decent year (which seems likely) he’ll want $2 M (like Connor Brown). And if Sparks lives up to McElhinney levels he will command at least 800k. Finally, this leaves no room to do anything else - which most good GMs would want for the ‘oh ****’ scenarios (Tabares goes down with a season ending injury in January).

The Kid is from the GTA and wants to be here for the cup more than anyone else other than Tavares. He's the one most likely to take a pay hit just to make it happen. All this, "He's going to demand 10 million" stuff is just the media being stupid. He'll take close to whatever Nylander gets, I bet Nylander get's 7-7.5 and Marner takes close to the same just to make it done and to help the team.

yup fits under the cap. And then there is that defense. Which come playoff time will be the reason for the early exit.
They have to fix their Defense if they want a real chance at winning the cup

I would never count on a player taking less pay t o"help the team". They are all out there risking injury and CTE for life so the owner can make millions and you think they will take less for the team.
It's really rare that is going to happen, and with how they keep expecting them too is how you get Nylander sitting out, and Matthews talking about "that's why we have agents"