Recent content by mr grieves

I mean, that RH 3/4C would’ve been the second or third piece in the Marner trade they should’ve made before the 2023-24 season. That we got anything here is great, but this has got to be among top 3 cases of bungled asset management of the cap era, no?

Me too. I made my call earlier: The contract and cap... Rumors were $13m to $14m on the open market -- or 13.6% to 14.7% of next year's cap. How it's gone and how it's going to go: SeasonCapMitch $$% Mitch 2019-2081.510.89313.4% 2020-2181.510.89313.4% 2021-2281.510.89313.4%...

So, 37% vs 46%... I dunno. It's a bit over a million on a $12m income? I myself am not a rich man and feel more than comfortable at around 1% of his salary, so I dunno... I would think a decent chunk of that million gets made up in endorsements, and then it's awfully nice spending US dollars in...

There is the Americans don’t give a s$&# about hockey tax, which will take a bite out of those endorsements What is the income tax in Ontario anyway? I know Dreger and Friedman are always on about this, but do you really need to pay 15m in Toronto to equal 12m in Vegas or Florida?

Yup. He’s going from over 13% of the cap to 12% — from his RFA contract to his UFA contract! And the contact card thing shows him delivering $12.6m value over the life of this one. What’d Johnston say the Leafs offered before the Rantanen trade? 13? 13.5? Talk about a guy not wanting to win with...

$12x8 would’ve been the sort of contract the Leafs would’ve given him and that would’ve re-set his relationship with the fan base.

What’s that? 25-33% off the market price? Dang. Mitch Marner re-signing for $8M?

Well, at the time Nylander signed -- well, all of them signed -- it was a rising cap world. This cap hit looks fine to me though; no discount, no gouge (i.e. more Nyander than Marner) sums it up for me.

Yeah, I think that Nixon-Reagan thing peaked in W then crashed in 2006-8. That was the time to get real about reform, but it didn't happen. And after hitting rock bottom, the thing just bounced and flew past what we saw with W. Maybe after the inevitable AI/crypto crash we'll see something...

Well, we never recovered from W Bush / Obama one-two punch, which is how we got to this, so... no. We're done, guys.

Yeah but........ [in "the Aristocrats" voice] The Shanaplan!

In the position of Leafs management, after the 2nd contract negotiation, I would've been very reluctant to trust that Marner's team could be worked with on a win-win in the event things didn't work out. I think it was clear, from that one, that Marner isn't interested in long-term commitments...

I say bring back all the fun depth guys we traded to make room for the Four and to try to graft a winning culture onto these losers.

Reports are Marner's camp hasn't responded to the Leafs' outreach, except maybe to invite them to a Zoom pitch after July 1.

I saw a few others as I skimmed the transaction list on Wikipedia... ARI traded OEL and Conor Garland, CBJ traded Seth Jones, BUF traded Sam Reinhart, BUF traded Jack Eichel, VAN traded Bo Horvat, WPG traded Pierre-Luc Dubois... Yeah, most of those are steps back from Nylander or (especially)...