What if AM and MM werent overpaid

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Created by: KakkoForMauriceRichardAward

Team: 2021-22 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 15, 2021

Published: Jul. 15, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Maybe you'll come at me saying something along the lines of «well here you barely removed 900K from Matthews' cap hit and barely removed 1,4M from Marner's cap hit. So I saved around 2,3M. THAT is the crazy thing. You're not 5M away from being good with the cap. That's honestly heartbreaking.

Like it's CRAZY to me that Dubas wasn't able to:
-either lock up Marner and Matthews to longer deals like EVERYBODY does
-or just bridge then for 2-3 years and then lock them up. But no, he had to do the mix between the above 2 options and this mix stinks big time.

Matthews is 100% walking 3 years from now if the Leafs don't progress. And fact is, I haven't seen ANY overall progression from this core in 3 years, since 2018.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Woll, Joseph		2	$900,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hyman, Zach	5	$5,000,000
Bonino, Nick	1	$3,000,000
Sutter, Brandon	1	$1,500,000
Armia, Joel	1	$2,750,000
Reimer, James	1	$1,750,000
Hakanpää, Jani	1	$1,250,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Marner, Mitch		4	$9,500,000
Matthews, Auston		4	$10,750,000

Trades

TOR

2022 4th round pick (ARI)
2023 6th round pick (ARI)

Additional Details:

Anywhere

ARI

Additional Details:

Engvall is a 4th liner that is 75% defense who doesn't even kill that many penalties and Dermott hasn't progressed in 2 calendar years. Need to move on from both

TOR

SEA

Kerfoot, Alexander

Retained Salary Transactions

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

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$81,261,533	$0	$400,000	$238,467

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hyman, Zach $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 7	Matthews, Auston $10,750,000$10,750,000	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 3
Robertson, Nicholas $796,667$796,667 LW, RW RFA - 3	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 4	Marner, Mitch $9,500,000$9,500,000
Mikheyev, Ilya $1,645,000$1,645,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Bonino, Nick $3,000,000$3,000,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Armia, Joel $2,750,000$2,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Brooks, Adam $725,000$725,000 C UFA - 1	Sutter, Brandon $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, C UFA - 1	Spezza, Jason $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD NMC UFA - 1	Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 3	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 1
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NTC UFA - 3	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 1	Hakanpää, Jani $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD UFA - 3	Reimer, James $1,750,000$1,750,000 G UFA - 2
	Liljegren, Timothy $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Simmonds, Wayne $900,000$900,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 2		Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 3
Anderson, Joey $750,000$750,000 RW RFA - 2		Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 4

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Hyman, Z.		Tavares, J.		Matthews, A.
	Marner, M.		Rielly, M.

Power Play 2
Armia, J.		Bonino, N.		Robertson, N.
	Nylander, W.		Sandin, R.

Penalty Kill 1
	Bonino, N.	Mikheyev, I.
	Muzzin, J.	Holl, J.

Penalty Kill 2
	Sutter, B.	Brooks, A.
	Brodie, T.	Hakanpää, J.

Jul. 15, 2021 at 8:59 a.m.

MatthewsFan

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Why didn’t they plan for the pandemic! Dubas and Pridham should have thought that the world would stop for a year and have a flat cap for multiple years 🤦‍♂️

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Jul. 15, 2021 at 9:01 a.m.

KakkoForMauriceRichardAward

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Quoting: MatthewsFan

Why didn’t they plan for the pandemic! Dubas and Pridham should have thought that the world would stop for a year and have a flat cap for multiple years 🤦‍♂️

Except the pandemic isn't responsible for Dubas being a **** and not being able to lock up his 2 best young players like any logical person would do

Jul. 15, 2021 at 9:20 a.m.

Lenny7

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This is bait, right?

Jul. 15, 2021 at 9:27 a.m.

Subbanator7667

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Honestly think it was more Tavares that screwed the leafs. Without him Marner and Mathews likely dont out up the sophomore numbers they did and dont get salaries that are the highest in the league. By adding a 11 million dollar, ppg player to the line up when they did they jumped up the expectations around the team and got younger players to think they were deserving of high contracts.

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Jul. 15, 2021 at 9:40 a.m.

HockeyFan989

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Quoting: KakkoForMauriceRichardAward

Except the pandemic isn't responsible for Dubas being a **** and not being able to lock up his 2 best young players like any logical person would do

Arizona was ready to throw everything including the kitchen sink at Matthews when he turned RFA

“The Toronto Maple Leafs 100% believed that if Auston Matthews got to July 1 last year, Arizona was going to offer-sheet him seven years, the max.” - Friedman

So technically what the Leafs lost in term they gained in cap space to build a contender…. It either or it wasn’t gonna be cheap

And Marner was coming off a 90+ point season with most Leaf fans stating he was better then Matthews who just signed a monster contract, (tbh he was) well his agent used that to his full advantage

Jul. 15, 2021 at 9:56 a.m.

rgwhite17

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Quoting: Subbanator7667

I would argue then the mistake was not getting Matthews, Marner and nylander all extended the same summer JT signed. Rumours Marner would of signed 9 mil for 8 years so if that is true that is on Dubas.
I like Dubas but when you look back on it he really messed up playing hardball with nylander to just sign him for 7 million anwyays. I’m good with the contact but then nylander wasn’t the same player that season after sitting til December.
It’s unfortunate they weren’t all signed for 6-8 years that same summer, now we are 3 years out from Matthews and nylander needing raises or just leaving.

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