Can’t wait for Nylander to come home to his billet family. Either that or he’ll take the leafs to the cleaners so they can have the honour of having 3 of the 10 highest paid contracts in hockey again

well that home was in toronto, where your boy grew up a leafs fan, willy will return the favour and let him stay at his place this time around dont worry

The devils actually went ahead and got something called term. 7 more years of 8 mill AAV hockey for Jack. And 8 years on Luke coming as soon as we're allowed

we can wait 7 years no biggie, luke will wanna join his brother where they grew up and cheered for their favorite team, thats if jack doesnt demand a trade first

they are gonna be insane on the 2nd line of the leafs

But next year will be fun as the leafs spend like 55 mill on Reilly, Marner, Matthews, Nylander, Tavares

itll be worth it when we get the hometown hughes brothers who love the leafs

Unfortunately when Matthews comes back and demands 17 mill AAV on his next contract because you were once again unable to get term, your team will be bankrupt.

we'll just pretend players are hurt and stash them on ltir like were doing now, its all good dude!

Damn. If only hometown discounts could have prevented you from spending 22 million on Marner and Tavares

You should do that with Matthews 13.25 mill.

yeah if only, the hughes brothers can do that, jack already graciously took a discount after 52 points in 2 seasons with the rangers and isles little brother, im sure he would do it again for city and team he grew up watching

we could, but doing that to one of the best players in the nhl, whos also the best goal scorer on the planet and mvp winner wouldnt be so smart would it?

U sure bout that? Hughes is better in every way except sniping.

pretty sure yeah, he has 14 goals and 23 points in 15 games against them, hughes has beaten his hometown leafs once in his career. better at goal scoring goals, better at defending, blocking shots, better at hockey. he'll look great on matthews wings next international competition though

No hes not lol healthy matthews is better at everything but playmaking than hughes

Matthews after statpadding against the devils 5th, 6th, and 7th string goalies in 2022. Ooh nice 3 more against Louis Domingue in 2021, very tough goalie. Keith Kincaid in 2019.

Wow. Did he ever plan on scoring against a starter?

Against the actual devils starter over Jack's career.

No point against blackwood in 2019 despite 8 minutes on the PP. Yikes
But good on him for a hattrick against Louis Domingue and an empty net.
21-22 he really made sure to pad the box score against the devils 6th 7th string emergency goalies and of course an empty. Closest thing to a starter he faced was 20 year old nico daws. 1 assist there no goals
And then 3 points in 3 games vs Vanacek last year.

Very impressive stuff Matthews. But hey, 0.83 ppg against actual NHL goalies isn't too bad. It's only about half of Jack's PPG this year

And yet Jack performed better last year and is playing better this year.

I know your life's dream is to have a superstar or even star that you don't have to over pay by millions of dollars in order to stay, but it's time to give it up

gonna need to see a 10000 word essay on your proof of this. anything else and it's invalid.

Oh wow what a surprise Jack hughes played better than a matthews that was hurt all season and hughes was still worse in the playoffs lol

At 5v5:
Jack: 2.54 points/60
Matthews: 1.47 points/60

Overall:
Jack: 2.8 points/60
Matthews: 2.62 points/60

And Jack did it against the elite defense of the canes (2nd in the NHL in goals against), and the rangers (4th in the NHL in goals against).
Matthews got the benefit of playing against the lightning (14th in goals against) and the Panthers (21st in goals against)
Jack's primary linemates:
Ondrej Palat and Erik Haula: 70 minutes
Mercer-Meier: 19 minutes
Palat-Bratt: 18 minutes
Tatar-Haula: 16 minutes


Matthews primary linemates:
Jarnkrok-Marner: 45 minutes
Bunting-Marner: 38 minutes
Nylander-Jarnkrok: 21 minutes
Marner-Nylander: 15
Marner-Knies: 14
Nylander-Knies: 13
Tavares-Nylander: 11
Attached at the hip to one or both of Nylander&Marner

But hey if you're happy with matthews 0 goals and 2 points in the second round, be happy.

I'll take the guy who produced more, against better defenses, with worse linemates

genuinely worried this guy is actually typing out 10000 words on jack hughes

I regret making this thread lol