So every player just takes whatever you give good luck with that.

or just hold firm at market value

Good luck when he sits out. You only have so much leverage.,but your underpricing the market. 111 g in 212 games the 3 previous seasons. Good luck getting in to sign cheaper.
You seem to think this is like the Esposito era Ownership says you get this and that's it GLWT

matthews has even less. his only option is sit and lose money or play in europe/khl for 1/5th of the pay.

Yeah, shoulda hired hunter, i hear he's doing great things in the nhl

Market value for Matthews at 8 years was over 13 million. 11 for 5 was market value for him

Or sign an OS

lol no


no one would waste their time os matthews.

Lol, yes. Just because a lot of people who say dubas sucks every way they can say otherwise doesnt mean it's right.

Really no one would have tried to sign a top 5 goal scorer? 🙄 You're comments make you seem extremely clueless!!!

leafs would match. no one was gonna waste their time with that os

not top 5 either. at the time he was 17th in goal scoring

The Only Thing Worser Then The Trades Is Your Spelling.

Again as I said 5th in goals the previous 3 seasons

Alex Ovechkin 133 Nikita Kucherov 120 Connor McDavid and John Taveras 112 Austin Mathews 111. Clueless

The only thing worse then his spelling is that AGM you made 30 minutes ago

every single player in the top 10 in that list earns less than matthews except mcdavid and that's with mcdavid signing up for 8 years not matthews 5 years.

you can try and spin it any way you want but it was a bad contract and people knew it at the time.

https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/197732

He was also the youngest guy on that list and was clearly getting better. Better to pay for the 20's than 30's

leafs are gonna have to pay for both if they want to keep matthews

Are you seriously trying to tell me he hasn't performed to his contract?

did you read the thread

obviously...so, he should have signed for less when he's lived up to or I might argue exceeded his contract, and this makes sense to you?!!! Because it makes none to me.

he was overpaid at the time of the signing. just read the thread

It was about 50/50 so what people on the internet didn't like it
I did and disagree

50/50? its 1/3 for 2/3 against and that's with the large leafs bias factored in.

Again he's lived up to it . It wasn't an overpay you and they are WRONG players don't just have to take what ownership wants to give them. Arbitration would have killed Toronto

his contract doesn't have the value his peers contracts have. it's hurting the leafs. the leafs could easily be under the cap right now with a full roster if dubas negotiated better.