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Another RFA that wasn't overpaid by over $2 million per season. Good for Calgary.

I don't really know what Boeser has to do with anything. Marner's deal looks bad relative to other RFA deals, both recent and older. One of the deals that makes it look bad is the Point deal. This isn't very complicated.

You're referring to contracts that are longer than Marner's and have a lower AAV. What am I supposed to be explaining? I don't think people would be nearly as miffed if Marner werelocked in for 8 years. It would still be an overpayment, but not as obviously bad.

The argument is that the Leafs are now paying significantly more for their RFAs than the rest of the league, not just Tampa. The Leafs are in the middle of a "market reset" that seems to affect only themselves.

Are any of those players Restricted Free Agents? There is no spin that makes 6 x $11 million look even passable when a superior player got 3 x $6.75 after the Marner contract was signed. Dubas had plenty of political/fan capital to allow Marner to sit until he decided to bring his demands...

This deal confirms that the Marner deal was atrocious. Not that any confirmation was needed, but yikes.

Yep. I think Rielly is the right choice for a lot of reasons - both with respect to his apparent leadership qualities and in order to avoid any rift between the young forwards who seem to be sort of "competing" for the captaincy.

To me, based on the projections and comparables, $10 million would have been fine if we were getting 8 or more years. On a 6 year term that would still be a significant overpayment.

Marner, on a 6 year term, is likely overpaid between 2 and 3 million per season depending on your view of the market.

Oh look, a RFA contract that isn?t a $3 million/season overpayment. Must be nice.

Marner is pretty grossly overpaid as a RFA relative to just about any possible comparator you could come up with. Like at least 2 million/year and probably more. He?s a great player but that doesn?t mean any old contract is a good contract. And it?s an unforced error because he literally...

Eh?

So can someone explain to me why RFA Mitch Marner is paid $1.5 million more per year, on a shorter contract, than Kucherov? Can we officially say that Dubas is a good scout but a terrible negotiator?

What an awful contract. It?s good that he is signed but yikes.

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).