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I genuinely think that any team that has multiple players over 10 million in salary cap significantly hurt their chance of winning a cup Would you rather have an A and D rated player or two B's? When you're matching lines in a game and one line is super expensive , a shutdown defense kills any chance you have. You get destroyed with the second, third lines, and 4th line. Your power play improves but if any of those players get injured, you can throw any thoughts of a championship out the window. How many teams has a team won the cup with multiple players over 10 mill, only Chicago comes to mind.
I truly think the best play for Toronto is to trade Mathews. Marners production vs. his cap means you are trading very low. Thats why I'd look to move Mathews and not necessarily to the blues. If it were I'd be looking at something like
Parayko, Dunn, bozak, 1st for Mathews.