Was Tavares Signing a Mistake

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Created by: ALjet12

Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: May 24, 2020

Published: May 24, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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I am not a Leaf's fan.
Looking at the Leaf's salary cap situation for the next few years, was Tavares signing a mistake.
The leafs have four star player's making over 40 million dollars, that is almost 50 % of their cap. They have a piss pour defense and a aging star goaltender that has to play 60+ games a year( which teams are moving away from ) He also on his last year of his contract on 2020 and he sure will get a raise. The team has a number one defensemen in Rielly and a solid defensive second line defensemen in Muzzin. Tyson Barrie will mostly not return next year and leafs got nothing for him at TDL. There rookies on defense are too young to make an impact , they need more time to develop. Tavarse had a monster of season in 2019 put up fans tactic numbers but down the line three years later I see the Leafs regretting that contract. We saw it with the Blackhawks with Toews and Kane. You just can not win just a few players making the majority of the cap, financial sacrifices have to be made.
PS: they should trade Nylander

Buyouts

Mikhail Grabovski: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

Phil Kessel: $1,200,000 (15%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
17	$81,500,000	$76,924,783	$0	$0	$4,575,217

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Johnsson, Andreas $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 4	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 5
Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 5	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 4
Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 3	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NMC UFA - 4		Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 2
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 2
Rosén, Calle $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1
Marincin, Martin $700,000$700,000 LD UFA - 1

May 25, 2020 at 7:20 a.m.

#101

Jets93

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Doughty 4 Tavares???

May 25, 2020 at 9:05 a.m.

#102

PleaseBanMeForMyOwnGood

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Quoting: MisstheWhalers

Changing the discussion again I see.
At least Kadri had some balls and stood up for himself, that's something the Leafs are missing.

Clifford, Muzzin, Kapanen and even Dermott add sand paper. Give it a rest.

May 25, 2020 at 9:17 a.m.

#103

MisstheWhalers

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Quoting: PleaseBanMeForMyOwnGood

Clifford, Muzzin, Kapanen and even Dermott add sand paper. Give it a rest.

I did, I went to bed, have a good one!

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May 25, 2020 at 9:22 a.m.

#104

zk97

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Quoting: Barilko14

If the cap was going to rise the way it was supposed to before a global pandemic hit, it would have been the equivalent of a Krejci contract today.

Ah
Also why tf is this 5 pages long

May 25, 2020 at 9:34 a.m.

#105

Barilko14

In Pridham we trust

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Quoting: MaxDomi13

Ah
Also why tf is this 5 pages long

Hot button issue!

May 25, 2020 at 9:34 a.m.

#106

zk97

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Quoting: Barilko14

Hot button issue!

ha yea

May 25, 2020 at 9:51 a.m.

#107

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Quoting: MisstheWhalers

I did, I went to bed, have a good one!

Thanks

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May 25, 2020 at 9:52 a.m.

#108

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Quoting: Isles777

I chirped a leafs fan in this ACGM? Can you quote the post?

To be honest , I wish i had a basement. Live in NYC now so my options were limited.

**** NYC? Well keep away from Covid, I may not like your words but stay safe bud.

May 25, 2020 at 9:52 a.m.

#109

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Quoting: Jets93

Doughty 4 Tavares???

Gross

May 25, 2020 at 4:41 p.m.

#110

Loxley_1972

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As much as I like Tavares.....I don't think we should have signed him....he's producing now but who knows what his numbers will be in a few years....and right now he is keeping us from signing better defensemen and bottom 6 with more skill who are proven.....not the free agent signings that look good from the KHL...Because of his contract he may have been a guideline to why Marner and Nylander got what they got....I know everyone likes to say he took less but I think he made out pretty good at 11mil.....I wish he would have signed elsewhere...Leafs did not need him....had he not gotten Mathews that would be a different story.

May 27, 2020 at 8:59 p.m.

#111

Jack_

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