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For the record, this is 100% not true. The Times has a long and distinguished history of covering New York sports and it 100% was read by New Yorkers for that reason. My father, a native New Yorker, always had it as his sports section of choice to the point that he subscribed despite not having...

And now the other shoe drops, the NYT is eliminating their Sports department.

This is true provided you forget how years work.

In the three years prior to their deals being signed Tkachuk edged Nylander in PPG by a hair (1.01 to .98) while Nylander had a better GPG (.43 to .39) and playoff record (25 points in 25 games to 12 in 18 for Tkachuk) Combine that with cap inflation, the Florida tax situation and the fact that...

Zero end of year all-star teams, One top 5 Hart voting season. Great player and HOFer for sure but you know, like I said, a notch below that top of the top level.

Makes it seem like he'll probably go his whole career just playing for the team who drafted him. Don't see that a ton these days and especially not for guys who are maybe just a notch below that superstar level.

I suppose what I'm getting at is that the measure of how good a goalie is these days isn't so much how good they are at their best so much as it is their ability to bring that consistently. Samsonov looked very good this year and so I'm happy to bring him back. But I'd be lying if I said I was...

Nylander makes less than 7 million per year. Anyone who then thinks Connor McDavid is a reasonable standard to compare him to is, plainly, a lunatic.

There's an old expression I like. "You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into". You're looking for logic and consistency where none exists. The entire argument is "The guys on the Leafs can't win a cup because they haven't won a cup". It's just meaningless...

I'm not sold on him in the sense that I don't think he's a lock to be a top of the league goaltender or anything but I think we have to be realistic about what the team can do to improve the situation. Basically their options are either guys who will have just as many question marks or...

I don't love Nylander at 10 million but I don't really doubt that if he got to the open market he'd get an offer in that neighbourhood so...all I can do is hope they work something out at a lower rate.

Right. And you're doing it in what is apparently complete ignorance of how salaries in pro sports work. I've given examples in pro hockey, I've given examples across the breadth of the industry as to how salary markets are set to show that it is not unique to the NHL. Given examples of the...

But it's more than that. It's not just that the best players may not be the best paid, especially when long term deals are in play as all salaries grow over time, but that just one player signing a deal doesn't set some sort of universal salary cap on all other players below them. This isn't...

Sure, what I actually said is that this is a universal truth across all of professional sports, cited three examples, and your response is accusing me of saying Basketball and Hockey are the same sport but yeah, clearly I was way off base with calling you obtuse and impervious to actually...

I appreciate that your whole thing is being comically obtuse and repeating the same thing about these players over and over and over again without learning from and listening to anything anyone else says but again, this is not how contracts work in professional sports. Patrick Maholmes is not...

Yeah. I actually like this team a bit better than if they'd just run things back. Losing Schenn is maybe a bit of a bummer but other than that I'm pretty excited to see what this team looks like. With Domi, Jarnkrok and Knies up full time it feels like there's a lot of mix and match capabilities...

I feel like C depth is still the obvious need but I guess you can go #3 C shopping at the deadline. Otherwise, I think they've beefed up at LW pretty admirably.

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Fair enough. Once again I have overestimated the NHLPA.

OK but Acciari isn't ROR. Like, if we really need a guy like that at some point I'm pretty confident that the Leafs can add a guy like that if need be without much of a draft cost. Like, if we're not generally confident that our GM can make that kind of addition at a reasonable price then we...