At some point I have to think some Leafs AGM will have Hamilton at the correct salary without thinking he's going to take less to play in TOR.

CBJ decline, that move doesn't make any sense for them. Hamilton is looking for at least 8mill per year.

What's a fair salary to you?

The $8 to $8.5M range

He's not getting more than 8 IMO. He himself asked for 8 on the high end, and obviously he can be negotiated down.

He's certainly not getting less than $8M and yes, he will likely get more. Maybe not much, but he will get more.

How do you figure that when he's starting out the bargain at 8 million?

Who says he's going to give a bargain?

Literally every contract negotiation ever. You start at a high point and a low point, and meet somewhere in the middle. I also fail to see how he's gonna get more than what he's asking for?

Relax buddy 200K-300K off. Hes not going to get more than 8.2. Other teams GM's also have offered him this contract also

Yeah... sorry, it doesn't always work that way. Hamilton will be sought out by many teams. He will choose his team and price.

Leafs fans think everyone wants to take a discount to play there and yet it hasn't happened once.

Others have offered him this because they're clueless. 200K/300K is significant to the player making the decision.

NO WAY, hes getting paid more than 8.2. If any teams do they're stupid

Whatever you say, man. We'll see.

And do Tavares, Spezza, Thornton, Simmonds not like exist? And that's only in recent memory.

Whatever it is, its in that range and no more than 8.25

Yeah because a player in the NHL has never been overpaid before.

Tavares? $11M is a discount? LOLOLOLOL

Spezza, Thornton and Simmonds are 100 years old. Nobody is paying them big money.

SJS offered him 13. So uh yeah it is a big discount lol.

Spezza could've easily got 2 million, same with Thornton and Simmonds.

Ya put up 15+ goals that usually gets u more than 2M

Sure bud. Tell me what was wrong with that? Tavares WAS offered 13 mil by SJ. A half a point per game player is easily worth 2 million. Thornton had value going into this season, and Simmonds was offered 2+ by MTL.

Dude.... you're boasting about Simmonds, Thornton and Spezza. Dinosaurs! Yeah, MTL had to. Nobody wanted to play there and for the record, nobody wanted to play for SJ either. They're a dying ship.

They're significant discounts, stop moving the goalposts.

I guess Hyman is staying then. Because why would want to get that extra $3M when you can play for Toronto, right? Andersen probably stays for $1M.

750k each, easily. McDavid also goes 750k when he gets bought out

He isn't getting more AAV than Pietrangelo in this market. But he might get the 8th year based on CAR allowing him to explore FA.