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Hopefully not 11 million per. But probably is.

This is the correct take.

Ya. And Doug Gilmour wasn't demanding the highest AAV for an NHL winger after his third season.

I didn't say he was a bad goal scorer. The main dimension to his game is being an elite playmaker/assister though.

Assists. He wasn't in the top 50 in goals scored and is in no way an above average defensive player, at least not yet. Look, he's a great player and deserves to get paid. He doesn't deserve to be the highest paid winger in the league, though. It's also fair to point out that Mitch's camp has...

The other RFAs are likely all waiting for Toronto to overpay on another RFA (following the pretty awful Matthews contract).

Mitch is a talented, largely one dimensional RFA with a good season (followed by a bad playoffs) under his belt. $11 million should never have been on the table. The fact that he rejected it is mind-boggling.

I don't think I was saying that they didn't outscore their opponents in the second half. They're a highly skilled team - of course they will do that. It's that their scoring went from being elite (around top 3) to not elite (top 10). I also have a hard time believing they made a decision...

At home, where Babcock can control line matchups because he has last change.

That's just your opinion, man. Edit: I am not a huge Babcock fan.

During each of the past two seasons, the Leafs' offence has significantly declined as the year goes on. This past season, the Leafs played better on the road than at home. That seems to suggest that when Babcock's "system" is fully implemented, the team plays worse than when the team just goes...

Works for me. Don't think it works for Marner.

To the superstar point, I guess I don't see Marner being on the level of the players cited by Nik. In what universe are Marner's comparables Crosby, Malkin or McDavid, rather than (say) Sebastian Aho? To your second point, at least historically, there has been a material difference between the...

For me, the annoying part is the trend of kids demanding an ever-increasing portion of the cap before free agency. This wasn't really a thing even a few years ago. Mitch is well within his rights to demand whatever he wants but I wouldn't be surprised if GMs start to push back a little more...

Ceci seems like a truly awful defensive player who panics in his own end and doesn't/can't control gaps or prevent the other team from getting shots. I'd love to be proven wrong but to me he just looks like Zaitsev (and may be even weaker on the puck), with slightly more offensive talent. This...

Looking at those highlights, he looks an awful lot like Zaitsev in the defensive end.

I suppose. But by most accounts, his arbitration award would have been high enough to walk away from. Even if Gardiner isn't signed I don't understand how it makes sense to pay $4.5 million to a below replacement level player who had an average Corsi of 44% over the past three seasons. What...

I don't really get why we are choosing to sign a dreadful defenceman for $4.5 million in the middle of a cap crunch with Gardiner still available.

Hilarious that you think this is a knockdown response. "The actual, factual statistics don't matter because I don't like the player." Reminds me of people who didn't like Sundin because he was "soft and European". Gardiner's hockey intelligence (gap control, driving offence, creating space)...

This one hurts. Kadri genuinely loved playing on the Leafs and grinded it out through some brutal years. His possession, hands and hockey intelligence were amongst the best on the team (the guy can really thread a pass). But he was valuable so I guess this is a pill the Leafs had to swallow. I...