The fact that you're first in the league says one of two things...

1. It's either completely been put off until the offseason. (Which is weird to me, if the money is right and the team is good, just sign it. But definitely still a possibility)

2. "I want to see if the team can be competitive" was an excuse.

I bet 13.5 million

Matthews would have a meltdown.

Poor little balding rich boy but he signed four years to squeeze more out of Toronto later

I'm sure an 8 year deal will be preferred when he's 30.

Every penny he can squeeze and Toronto doomed from heavy contracts

Oh I mean no. 2 seems far fetched. I guess it's technically possible but have we ever seen that with a Swedish player? just wants out of what looks like a decent situation? When Benning was running things I would have accepted hiim leaving it was that bad. New management seem to be doing very well though. It's 99.8% he just decided to negotiate after the season and why not? A good playoff performance and he gets more and a bad performance he gets the same.