Lol this crap again? Should I counter by listing off your 4th liners and saying they will be your 3rd line because for some reason you think it's an insult? You're a disaster lol. Spezza was a 4th liner, everyone has said Simmonds is a 4th liner and combined they make significantly less than Komarov by himself. You just love shooting yourself in foot.

Simmonds shouldn’t even be in the bottom 6 of a rebuilding team.

All in? Lol 2.5 million on Bogosian and Simmonds is all in? Bogosian, Simmonds, Spezza, and Thorton make how much money? Also didn't Spezza himself out score Komarov? Playing on the 4th line? As for your defence comment, a 30 year old and 31 year who have no protection isn't a problem. And again, hilarious that of all people you mention that. The guy who has gone off the deep end to defend the pile of 30+ players on the Islanders making as much or more with more term than either Muzzin or Brodie. Do you hear yourself?

Why because he had 2 rough seasons that were injury plagued? But again, if your ammo is chirping 4th liners you literally have nothing. Absolutely nothing. I am just waiting for you to mention Kessel or something else completely inconsequential, it would only be slightly less ridiculous

Know your team. Both muzzin and Brodie have trade protection for all 4 years of their contracts

This is a crucial year for the leafs. They need to make a deep run or they will have to retool. Dubas should have went after gritty players that are actually good! Tampa bay did it right - Coleman, goodrow , and maroon are all incredible forecheckers and great defensively. The islanders have those types of players as well. The leafs went after players that are physical but can’t play at an NHL level

Both can be exposed in the expansion draft, not saying either will but both can be. Also you have completely lost this argument. Completely. As usual you won't quit because you are a bitter baby but you should. Anytime you start chirping 4th liners, two of which make the league minimum and the other 1.5 million you have nothing to say. Let me guess Dallas Cowboys, or you have won a round or whatever. The Islanders have won nothing of importance and they won't be better next year and their cap situation is exactly this for years. Move out bad deals on declining 30+ year olds and next year you get to do it all over again because half your team has 5-7 years of 5+ million for guys that will he 34-36 by the time their deals are up. But please tell me how stupid it is that Dubas signed guys for the league min. Just soundly defeated, it's just straight up stubborn pride that keeps you going.

Funny but when the Islanders were beaten by the Bolts, it was Point, Kucherov and Hedman you didn't have an answer for. Not Maroon, Coleman and Goodrow. Depth is important, no one disagrees but to think 3rd and 4th liners win you cups is literally the dumbest **** that people believe. When the Leafs go on a deep run, it won't be because Simmonds hits 5 people. It will be because Matthews is a beast. You just don't get it.

I'm not just chirping your bottom 6* players, I am calling out your top 4 D and Frederick Andersen, who always chokes in game 7's and had an awful year last season.

The homer leafs fan says the islanders aren't going to be better next season , sounds like an objective statement to me

The islanders are adding dobson, wahlstrom and a franchise caliber goaltender, I think they'll be alright!

The lightning wouldn't have won the cup without maroon, Coleman , and Goodrow. Coleman is a fringe 1st line player who should have won the selke this season (also a great goal scorer) and maroon/goodrow are some of the best 3rd liners in the NHL. The lightning star players were obviously their best players, but every cup contender needs solid depth. Look at Pittsburgh in the years when they didn't have much success in the playoffs, it was because they didn't have good depth.

Andersen will be fine. The top 4 is fine and the top 6 is ****ing stacked. The bottom 6 has a lot more character and the defence has way more depth. Going after an outlier season from Andersen as your ammo it typical crap

The leafs could use a goalie like Ilya sorokin

What is a Performance Bonus?
A Performance Bonus can be given to a player in addition to their salary. Performance bonuses are only paid to the player if they meet the requirements as defined by the bonus. Performance bonuses count against the salary cap; however, a team can exceed the salary cap due to performance bonuses by the maximum performance bonus cushion amount of 7.5 percent of the upper limit. Not all players are eligible for Performance Bonuses, and to receive a bonus within their contract, a player must meet one of the following criteria:
The player is on an entry-level contract.
The player has signed a one-year contract and is over 35 years old.
The player has signed a one-year contract after returning from a long-term injury (has played 400 or more games, and spent 100 or more days on the Injured Reserve in the last year of their most recent contract).

What am I missing, obviously didn't go in depth but teams can exceed the cap with bonuses. Then they get pushed to the following year as I understood.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2020/10/06/why-the-rangers-dont-have-as-much-cap-space-as-it-seems/amp/

Anderson against Columbus in the play-in round:
CBJ AUG 9 0 1 0 2 21 19 .905 0 57:47 1 1 0
CBJ AUG 7 1 0 0 3 39 36 .923 0 70:46 1 1 0
CBJ AUG 6 0 1 0 4 43 39 .907 0 78:24 1 1 0
CBJ AUG 4 1 0 0 0 20 20 1.000 1 60:00 1 1 0
CBJ AUG 2 0 1 0 1 34 33 .971 0 59:20 1 1 0

Career summary:
2019-2020 playoffs 5 5 2 3 -- 0 157 10 1.84 .936 1 327
Career Playoffs 53 53 27 23 -- 0 1,626 137 2.55 .916 3 3,226
2019-2020 52 52 29 13 0 7 1,577 143 2.85 .909 3 3,007
NHL Career 369 358 213 92 -- 45 11,103 927 2.63 .917 19 21,178

Also keep in mind he plays behind one of the worst defensive teams in the league, if not the worst defensive team. Freddy doesn't blow playoff rounds, he's literally the only reason this team makes the playoffs at all.
Not here to participate in the ongoing Buds vs Isles debate, although if results are the metric used, Isles are the better team currently. I just wanted to chime in on Freddy because he gets dumped on far too often when really he's been the MVP on this team 4 years running. If he was on a team like Columbus or NYI he'd have multiple Vezinas by now. Sure, you could point to this past year as an off year, but considering what happened with the team(multiple injuries to only good D, dramatic firing of head coach, pandemic, etc) I would consider it more of an outlier than a trend, and he showed well in the play-in round(1.84, .936). My two cents.

hard no from leafs.

Thank you. I still doubt this is a huge problem. 4.8M max being added to the cap. Now again, can bonuses not be pushed to the following year should they exceed the cap? Isn't that what happened last year to some teams? They had small cap penalties from the prior year due to performance bonuses.

Also why on earth are you reading the NY Post? I hope it was the result of a internet search instead of your usual reading or you are being filled with half truths and sensationalist stories.

I don’t believe they can be pushed to the following year, the article will tell you everything you need to know.

I follow Larry brooks on twitter, he covers the rangers