Fire J.D. too
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I hope this is the outcome for the leafs.
This is the perfect trade partner, they have the correct pieces and would go crazy for a Matthews level talent.
This leafs team just can't win if they sign Matthews to a 12.5+ aav, they would have to trade two 80-100pt players? to make room for his single 80-100pts. It just doesn't work. Marner, Nylander plus the great young players this trade gets them are much more sensible than just having Matthews at 13.5mil+(expected ballpark).
The only other thing I could think, you consider this next season a throw away to get JT off the books. Trade Nylander now. Sign Matthews to his 13.5m and then you "rebuild" around Matthews/Marner.
But we've already seen examples of teams having 2 spectacular players signed to 10m+ contracts being too much money to build a competitive team around, so I dunno! Lol