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Dreger reporting that Ceci's 1 year 4.5M contract will be announced.

Kerfoot signed: 4 x 3.5M per Dreger.

My favourite thing about all this was Melnyk talking about the Leafs D and then hiring the Leafs D coach and accquring 2 of the Leafs top 4 D.

He seems to think his comparable is Matthews.

Gravel

https://twitter.com/GMillerTSN/status/1145695957398540289 So many at TSN/SN really are clueless when it comes to the cap.

Hainsey and Ennis are going to Ottawa.

https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/1145537225536487424 6 pieces!!

With Hyman out to, I could see Agostino starting the season with the Leafs. The 4th C spot is probably up for grabs too.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/just-exactly-marc-bergevin-sleeve/ This link that Carlton posted in the free agency thread also mentions Brown being in the Zaitsev deal.

Shore spent last season in the KHL.

I would have thought some more details about the full deal would have surfaced by now.

Future years are an issue too because the cap hasn't really been going up that quickly lately and Rielly, Dermott and maybe Muzzin if they decide to keep him are going to need raises in the next few years so getting out from Zaitsev's long term money would help with that.

https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/1145115471185883136

From his perspective, accepting his QO is probably the way to go. If he goes to arbitration and awaraded more, then the Leafs walk and he goes to unrestricted free agency and I doubt anyone is offering him 4.3M.

Ceci is an RFA, qualified at 4.3M, what would his contract actually look like though? We know the term will definitley be shorter and if the AAV is significantly lower than Zaitsev, then it makes sense for us I think.

For a companies like Rogers/Bell, I'm sure those signing bonuses are being amortized over the length of the contract.

There is a cap, but they allow you to exceed to keep your own players (and some other situations). If you go too high though, you pay a luxury tax. I believe the tax rate increases if you goes if you exceed it in consecutive years.

I went with no cap, while being fully aware that it will never happen. I can't even see a soft cap being implemented any time in the foreseeable future, definitely not in the next round of CBA negotiations. An interesting question is, would the owners give up a cap in exchange for...

Vancouver is actually lucky it happened this year, if it happened two years from now, it would have been something like 9M in that year.