Brewin Flames Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Maple Leafs give William Nylander team-record $92M contract William Nylander isn't going anywhere. The Toronto Maple Leafs announced on Monday an eight-year, $92 million contract extension with their top-line winger. The deal, which includes a full no-movement clause for its duration, kicks in next season and will keep Nylander with the club through 2032. It also marks the richest total value contract Toronto has ever offered to a player. Nylander, 27, was drafted eighth overall by the Maple Leafs in 2014 and has produced 198 goals and 484 points through 558 NHL games to date. This season has been among Nylander's best, including a franchise-record 17-game point streak to open the season, in which Nylander put up 12 goals and 27 points. He's currently fifth overall in NHL scoring with 21 goals and 54 points in 37 games. Now that Nylander's deal is done, the Leafs have officially invested more than $40 million of cap space in four players next season -- Nylander, Auston Matthews, Mitchell Marner and John Tavares. Nylander and Leafs' general manager Brad Treliving will be available on Monday afternoon to speak on the long-term pact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewin Flames Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 SMH.... Half the cap tied up in 4 players, and everyone of them is over paid. None the less, with that garbage netminding, they still are not going anywhere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Math Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 On the other hand, I don't think Tavares will be back in two years (or maybe at a much lower cap hit). Bertuzzi's contract should be off the books too. With the increasing cap, this should fit in the plan but you're right: all the eggs in the same basket is not a good recipe for success. The Leafs should plan a trip for the Compostella pilgrimage and pray for Woll to become their franchise elite goalie. This and fixing this horrible defensive corps as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Ewing Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 The three most comparable contracts to Nylander's, considering, age, cap hit% and term, and what they had done up to the point in their career when they signed their deals: Corey Perry - who had won a Hart and Richard trophy and had been a key contributor to a Cup winning team. David Pastrnak - also had won a Rocket Richard trophy. Of the 10 most statistically similar players, five are HOFers and the others are guys like Malkin, Stamkos, Jagr, and will be in the HOF later. Nylander isn't in Pasta's class. Jamie Benn - Hart trophy winner. His best production is this season; the first really above 1 PPG, so it's as if he has an established history of high end production, unlike Pastrnak. That shouldn’t get you into the top tier of pay, just in case cap efficiency matters to the team. Treliving should have signed him in the summer or dealt – snookered himself, again. I'm pretty sure that's what Joe Sakic would have done. Different circumstances, but Kevin Cheveldayoff turned Pierre-Luc Dubois into a bounty. Nylander might stay up at this current level, but aging curves tell us his most productive seasons are likely mostly behind him. Another high cap beauty also belongs to the Leafs – Tavares, which is why cheap but effective players like Nzaem Kadri (also later over-paid by this GM) shook loose. Marner also heavy with him at 1.08 PPG this season. At least his career is over 1 PPG. Looks like Matthews Marner and Tavares have full NMCs. None of the 3 known as solid two way players either, as coach Keefe will attest to. They’re done, unless something big and assertive happens. In 2024-2025, they will four forwards at 11M +, 12 signed players (2 top 4 D and no set starting G). Tavares and Marner expire the year after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Ewing Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 1 hour ago, Brewin Flames said: SMH.... Half the cap tied up in 4 players, and everyone of them is over paid. None the less, with that garbage netminding, they still are not going anywhere. I dunno... I don't think that Auston Matthews, who's tracking to be one of the sport's greatest ever goal scorers, has a bad deal. Dom Luszczyszyn's model at the Athletic sees him as providing $3.8M in surplus value: When his $13.25M contract kicks in, he'll still be a fair bargain. Of the big four, it's the Tavares contract that hurts with respect to providing value. We can all have a conversation about spending all of your big contracts on forwards and leaving little for defense or goaltending, but it's a different talk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJeremy Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 20 minutes ago, JR Ewing said: I dunno... I don't think that Auston Matthews, who's tracking to be one of the sport's greatest ever goal scorers, has a bad deal. Dom Luszczyszyn's model at the Athletic sees him as providing $3.8M in surplus value: When his $13.25M contract kicks in, he'll still be a fair bargain. Of the big four, it's the Tavares contract that hurts with respect to providing value. We can all have a conversation about spending all of your big contracts on forwards and leaving little for defense or goaltending, but it's a different talk. You got a better shot at winning with a weak offense and great Defense/Goaltending, rather than an explosive offense with no D and Goaltending. Everyone in every sport knows that except the Leafs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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