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Brad cleaned up his own mess. Good. I think he's doing a pretty good job lately.

If Marner was only really interested in going to Vegas, I wonder what this deal would've looked like last off-season. We've heard that Treliving wanted Theodore, but that was a non-starter. So, Roy and... that other Nic, the defenseman? The rights to Marchessault? Karlsson, maybe? I think that...

Because the free agent market sucks and we got no picks! Just to get that turd the rest of the way down, here are the media availabilities from the locker cleanout day immediately before each could re-sign with the team. Marner’s been excerpted here before, as evidence that he announced his...

Which, to me, sounds like a guy who already knows the player isn't going to re-sign. We don't have much insight into what goes on behind the scenes--Treliving is pretty adamant about not detailing negotiations in public--but it looks to me like Marner's camp knew he wasn't coming back to the...

Perhaps he felt he could say that because he knew those players were willing to sign whereas he couldn't with Mitch because he knew he didn't want to be here? Here's what he said about Nylander being unsigned in October 2023: I am not going to get into any public discourse. I don’t say that to...

This is something I wondered about when it became clear that the flat cap was going to lead to the Browns, Kapanens, Hymans, Johnssons and the like getting moved out for a rotating cast of league minimum supporting players. Extreme wealth inequality and a hollowed out middle class isn’t...

It’s like Bender said, I think. In life, there are certain types of people always ready to be aggrieved, who marinate on and stew in slights, and push those self-pitying narratives to build up the sense of entitlement needed take, take, take every thing that they can, except, of course, any...

We’ve also heard every coach he’s had, at least since his first couple seasons, be very complimentary of him, talk about him as a “coach’s dream” etc. That’s true of Leafs coaches, tournament coaches, opposing team’s coaches. There’s a disconnect between how he’s perceived by those who would use...

With interest!

Your evidence for this is one pretty (and characteristically) mealy mouthed quote from Marner in spring 2024. On the other side of that, there’s how his team handled his last negotiation—took it past the contract’s expiry—and plenty of credible reporting from people who are around the team and...

Ah! I understand now. I don't remember anyone around here who's now "anti" Marner saying they wanted the Leafs to hold onto him even if his NMC was about to kick in.

Folks bemoaning how this was managed are bemoaning the management wanting to keep the core 4 together, because they (the moaners, not management) anticipated this outcome. “It makes no sense to bemoan signing David Clarkson on July 1, 2013; at that time they wanted him and signed him to contract...

I'd take a chance on Skinner and try to sign Burns as a 5/6 PP-specialist.

July 1, 2023.

What signing(s) today could've made it not one?

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...