Mcdonagh isn't waiving to new jersey

Well hes the player that should get traded imo. Tampa would have too much cap going to LHD if they keep him. And that almost 7 mill of the cap is huge

I doubt he would waive to a team that would want him and have cap space

The main problem in Tampa is that most players won't waive for a team with cap space. They have the space for a reason.

Strange that so many say that Tampa is preferred place to be an NHLer....but then so many think players will waive their NTCs, just so they can make fantasy rosters.
Gourde and Johnston aren't even worth their contracts, and even Palat is just fair value. Really tough moves if at all.. Gee Leafs signed Muzzin for 5.6m is McDonagh worth 6.75?

bc McDonagh is younger and better than Muzzin thats why

That's a stupid argument about age....Muzzin is four months older. Is McDonagh long term value going to be good? I know stats aren't everything but McDonagh really dropped off offensively this season, 12 points in 50 game.

when he signed the contract..... McDonagh signed a longer contract at a younger age. I didnt think it was that hard to follow along, should have explain that more

No it isn't hard to follow. McDonagh's 6.75m contract...virtually totally NTC ends when he 36 years 10 months. Muzzin 5.6m ends when he 35 years 2 months.
I just wonder about "playing value"...which only time will tell. Muzzin was the best Leaf Dman last year. McDonagh has lots of help with Hedman, and the much beloved youngsters in Cernak and Sergachev.
Leafs hurt themselves by about 5m by overpaying three RFAs. Tampa hurt themselves with those NTCs, and maybe the Gourde and Johnsson deals are looking like not good value.
More than ever smart cap management is so important. IMO Boston have been great at their cap management over the past few years and now Colorado might be the next Cup contender with cap space to maneuver personnel.

It's easy to call it "smart cap management", but it's honestly a lot of pure luck. The Pastrnak-Bergeron-Marchand line makes around $20m. The reason for that is because they agreed to long-term deals when they weren't playing as well as they are now. The GM deserves some credit, but most GMs would have sought that same type of thing. The odds of the players agreeing to that and you as a GM being right about them being future stars are low. The Avalanche with MacKinnon is perhaps a more extreme example. MacKinnon is way better than Matthews, yet Matthews makes nearly double his salary. Do you think if they had swapped GMs that would be the other way around? It's about getting lucky enough that your players' value doesn't spike until after they sign. Good drafting/signing is the other factor and that's where the GMs should get the most credit. The Lightning built a perennial contender by drafting (or signing undrafted) people like Cirelli, Gourde, Johnson, Point, Kucherov, Cernak, etc. The only high picks they really benefitted from were Stamkos, Hedman, and then Drouin who led to Sergachev. The Avalanche struck gold with Rantanen (though he's not on an ELC anymore), Girard, and Makar (a high draft pick but not as high as he should have been). The Bruins extended their window through DeBrusk and McAvoy. The GMs deserve some credit for good drafting and for having the foresight to try to guess which players would improve and sign them long-term early, but it's more luck than shrewd management, because you're always bound by what your players will sign; for Boston and Colorado, that's been favorable (in no small part due to lucky timing), whereas for teams like Toronto, it's been a nightmare (stars almost universally broke out while still on ELCs).