Brent Gunning and Sam McKee are joined by Nick Kypreos to chat about the Auston Matthews contract, the level of pressure on #34 going forward, and William Nylander’s stalemate.
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Highest paid player for 1 playoff series win is a joke. Idc how great mathews is. This is an overpayment that will cripple toronto even more than they already are. 4 year term is the only saving grace in my opinion.
Love the Owen Sound hat!
Love this contract. It guarantees more Leaf failure.
Nathan MacKinnon is from Nova Scotia. They are a different breed out here. Same with Crosby who took 1.2 million less. Money is way down on the list of things that are important to the average east coaster.
The toronto fans aand the whole country comees together and they cant get sold out games at other arenas….all are games are always full……NHL PLAYERS HAVE IT GOLDEEN HERE
I saw on a different ytube about this that some think this is team friendly all I could is laugh.
I think 5 year max terms is the way to go.3 yr elc + 5+5 puts most players into their 30s and gives teams more flex and players more money.
Overpaid!!!! One trick pony can score that's it. Does he have defense and back check ? No. Does he Fore check? No. Is he tough? No. Does he have leadership? No.Does he have heart? No. Has he had success in the playoffs? Not at all. Leafs will never win a cup with this heartless core 4. Simple.
nothing less than a stanley cup will suffice now. 4 years to get it with these players at the helm.
I think Sammy’s take on contract discussion is off per usual. The NHL wants people talking about these things, it’s August and we’re in full on debates on whether this is good or not for the leafs and the league. NBA free agency is HUGE, lots of discussion and discourse comes out of it, and it’s looked at as nothing but a good thing for the league. Constant discourse, you should be happy, it’s part of the reason why you have a job.
Marner is not and has never been the better player or even the equal player
Matthews has multiple seasons in the top 100 of goals per game in a season
Marner isnt even in the top 200 of any offensive list (best season 236th assists per game)
Dear lord goals per 60 in a season, in the history of the entire nhl, he has the number 1 and 4 seasons… hes 25
in more games played marner has half the shots blocked
Matthews 542 points in 482 games
Marner 554 points in 507 games
Wtf are these guys smoking
Marner is not the goal scorer Matthews is, pure goals. Both are good defensively, not Matthews fault Keefe doesn't use him to kill penalties. Marner is the pure set up man, but he is smaller, not as good a playoff performer so far. And he is not a centre.
That’s a steal for Matthews and not Toronto
Playoff points per game;
Matthews 0.88
Makar 1.07
Kucherov 1.13
MacKinnon 1.30
McDavid 1.53
Draisaitl 1.57
They paid him how much??
McKinnon is older and probably wanted 8 yrs
Hard cap just keeps the field even. And that’s what I love about the game of hockey. Literally any team in the league can complete with any team. I’m sorry Toronto screwed the dog with contracts and honestly just shows what kind of hockey players the leafs truly have.
You know if you put Austin's two contacts together . After his first elc contact . You get 9 years of an average avv of 12361111.11 over the 9 years that's less than McDavid 12500000. Over 8 years. But it doesn't work like that since the last 4 year's are 13.25 . But people are jumping all over Austin for only doing 5 and 4 year's at a time. So far he's committed more year's to his time than McDavid
McDavid isn’t resigning with Edmonton. Has anyone ever visited Edmonton before ?? 😂
If Matthews signed an 8 year extension. That would take him to 35 years old. People have been complaining about Tavares a couple of years now and he’s 33 years old making 11 million a year. Now these people wanted Matthews to sign for 8 years so you can pay Matthews 13.25 until he’s 35??? Doesn’t make sense
Matthews was eligible for 16.7 AAV players are allowed 20% of the cap