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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 30 at 9:36 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 30 at 3:09 a.m.
Thread: Tavares marner waive
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Core4nomore</b></div><div>U take 1 year of 11 mil and 2.4 from kampf and tavares. Tavares has played w bedard and can mentor him. Meanwhile u get 2 young players and a free 4th. What do u have to lose here</div></div>

1- Tavares isn't going to Waive
2- If the leafs can get him to waive it is for one reason: they don't want his contract so they have little to no leverage in this situation. Is JT a good player? 100%. Is he worth 11 million? No. Are the teams who would want a Tavares caliber player good teams? Yes. Do most have the cap? No. Are the teams who can take his full 11 million good? Probably not

Chicago would take JT either with a 1/2 round pick pick, for FC or for a mid-late round pick (3-7 rounder)

He won't waive his NMC
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 30 at 12:45 a.m.
Thread: Tavares marner waive
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Core4nomore</b></div><div>U take 1 year of 11 mil and 2.4 from kampf and tavares. Tavares has played w bedard and can mentor him. Meanwhile u get 2 young players and a free 4th. What do u have to lose here</div></div>

Abruzzese is nothing more than a minor leaguer, Villeneuve is at best a bottom pair guy. Those two plus a 4th round pick is nowhere near close enough for taking $13.4m of cap from the Leafs this season for Tavares and Kampf plus an additional two seasons of Kampf at $2.4m per.

the Hawks won’t have any need for the minor leaguers. Taking on Kampf’s contract is worth a 2nd round pick on its own and Tavares’s $11m cap hit for this season will cost at minimum a 1st round pick. There might be a contending team that would take Tavares for free, if you can find one with the cap space, but not a rebuilding team.

Please don’t tell me Tavares’s 3 or 4 games of experience playing with Bedard carries any weight in the decision process. Additionally, when it come to JT’s ability to mentor and lead young players I have just one question to ask… what happened in Toronto? He had one of the youngest and most talented rosters to “mentor” and he lead them to a grand total one of playoff round victory.