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Sure, that's true to an extent. When we look at the Marner deal vs. the Tkachuk or Point deals obviously some of the discrepancy there is going to be about the term of the deal(although, with that said, OTH is also right that those deals were used to beat up on Dubas for the Marner deal so it's...

I can't speak for Marincin but Gauthier would be far from the first guy with his frame to take fairly big leaps in his development later than most players.

Well, like I said elsewhere. It's in large part because so many fans seem incapable of enjoying the game apart from taking on the role of pretend-GM. Plus there's just the simple truth that they've managed to get people to be rooting for the success of a massive business enterprise. Now, they...

Ignoring Point, 5 of the 7 are within a .013 spread of each other and are generally within the range of a lot of other contracts signed in the cap era. With regards to Tkachuk and Laine's deals I feel like I pretty clearly explain what I think is going on there and why they fall outside of the...

Anything in the world "could" be the difference but, no, the difference between what Marner got and what  Rantanen got does not reflect the difference between getting "pieces". It's barely the difference of two minimum salary players. At best it's the difference of one fairly low paid player and...

I'll do you one better. With Connor at 7.143 here's all of the RFA forwards who merited their own thread here: Point: .090 Tkachuk: .111 Boeser: .129 Rantanen: .130 Connor: .135 Konecny: .138 Marner: .142 Laine: .166 (Nylander, fwiw, was at .143) So the real outliers are Laine and Point...

That's just more or less the way the TV business works. If Sportsnet is losing a ton of money on the NHL deal, they're not going to lose more by investing in better talent if it doesn't affect ratings.

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Even if that were true, imagine injecting so much negativity into the perception of one of the brightest young players in Leafs history over 1.7-1.9% of the cap.

I genuinely don't see how this deal makes anyone's deal look bad other than maybe Marner(and even then I think this is broadly right there). So, no, nothing particularly greedy about the Leafs players.

.130 per point. So on the low end of this year's market but still broadly within the mainstream.

Are you going to stop watching games on Sportsnet?

No, it is. Nobody has suggested there is a specific clause in the SPC that would allow that.

So to take a break from everyone dunking on Nutman, I thought I'd write something quick about how I haven't really done a good job at expressing my thoughts on this. To start with, a lot of people who are on Matthews' "side" for lack of a better term are saying things like "Drunken shenanigans...

It really is astounding how standards of behaviour can just up and change in only 40 or 50 years.

This deal may as well have been subtitled "I Don't Want to Be in Winnipeg".

Which is .166 cap % per point, for those of you keeping track at home.

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Right and what I'm saying is that the fact that the CBA specifies a Commissioner's power to do these things tells me that there really isn't a comparable team mechanism. What, to me, the article from PPP confirmed(although again without reading theSPC) is that there is no specific mechanism by...

From the very next paragraph of the article: I'd have to read the contract to be sure but if a violation of this clause constitutes a material breach of the contract that can justify its termination then I don't think it also grants unilateral suspension power. Because if "No Crimes" was...