By giving him the next David Clarkson contract?

7M might be a bit too much to take him to 35.

This is an absurd contract imo. This was merely to show that the Leafs could sign him to whatever they wanted.

I am tired of people saying "the leafs cant pay anyone else cause they pay their top 3 $33M..."

Dubas has structured this team to have expiring contracts every summer so that he has the freedom to do what ever he needs to keep the players he wants.

In reality, Hyman shouldnt get much more than $5M which means the leafs would have an extra $2M to add to the team above.

This is just to show how it could be done to shut everyone up saying "they cant afford to keep him"

$7M is a bit high and definitely too high for that term

I’d say your overpaying Hyman by a lot maybe make it 4M then I’d say your fine

My best guess at this deal is something like this:

6 years x $4.75M AAV ($28.5M total)

Year 1 - $6.5M signing bonus + $2.25M base salary = $8.25M total salary - full NMC
Year 2 - $5.5M signing bonus + $1.75M base salary = $7.25M total salary - full NMC
Year 3 - $3.5M signing bonus + $750K base salary = $4.25M total salary - full NMC
Year 4 - $2.5M signing bonus + $750K base salary = $3.25M total salary - full NMC
Year 5 - $2.5M signing bonus + $750 base salary = $3.25M total salary - NMC (with M-NTC of 10 teams Hyman would accept a trade to)
Year 6 - $1.5M signing bonus + $750K base salary = $2.25M total salary - (M-NTC of 16 teams Hyman would accept a trade to)

This gives Hyman 69% of his total salary within the first 3 seasons of the deal and gives him trade protection through tour the deal. Not many teams are able to dish out big signing bonuses like the Leafs are and the pandemic has made that list shorter. This also gives Toronto a reasonable cap hit (AAV) for the duration of the deal, and makes Hyman an easy trade piece in the last 2 seasons of the deal when he's likely deteriorating.

Moral of the story: Hyman's staying in Toronto unless he just flat out doesn't wanna play for them anymore. But being a hometown kid and growing up idolizing playing for them, I can't see that happening.