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"We took an approach where by we would be very proactive and progressive with Calgary," Meehan told reporters at the Serge Savard Golf Tournament held west of Montreal. "We started early, and we set a position. We didn't really have to wait. We formulated a position that we thought would be fair and we gave that to Calgary probably in the early part of June.
"So we're involved in negotiations right now, but as far as I'm concerned it's not a waiting game. We made a decision in terms of what we think is fair and relevant for the player and we're working with Calgary now."
CarltonTheBear said:https://www.tsn.ca/matthew-tkachuk-s-agent-we-set-a-negotiating-position-in-june-1.1353375
"We took an approach where by we would be very proactive and progressive with Calgary," Meehan told reporters at the Serge Savard Golf Tournament held west of Montreal. "We started early, and we set a position. We didn't really have to wait. We formulated a position that we thought would be fair and we gave that to Calgary probably in the early part of June.
"So we're involved in negotiations right now, but as far as I'm concerned it's not a waiting game. We made a decision in terms of what we think is fair and relevant for the player and we're working with Calgary now."
Tkachuk isn't budging from his June offers. Rantanen hasn't received an offer from Colorado all summer. Laine couldn't really care less if he played in Winnipeg or not. Marner's picking his own comparables.
That is a good idea!Bender said:CarltonTheBear said:https://www.tsn.ca/matthew-tkachuk-s-agent-we-set-a-negotiating-position-in-june-1.1353375
"We took an approach where by we would be very proactive and progressive with Calgary," Meehan told reporters at the Serge Savard Golf Tournament held west of Montreal. "We started early, and we set a position. We didn't really have to wait. We formulated a position that we thought would be fair and we gave that to Calgary probably in the early part of June.
"So we're involved in negotiations right now, but as far as I'm concerned it's not a waiting game. We made a decision in terms of what we think is fair and relevant for the player and we're working with Calgary now."
Tkachuk isn't budging from his June offers. Rantanen hasn't received an offer from Colorado all summer. Laine couldn't really care less if he played in Winnipeg or not. Marner's picking his own comparables.
You've got to think this is going to come up in the next CBA now. Give them arb rights and be done with it.
Zee said:Marner's going to Switzerland!
Zee said:Marner's going to Switzerland!
louisstamos said:This was posted to Twitter back in June. Credit to Zee for being the first to call it in this thread!
https://twitter.com/KPapetti/status/1143304606384046082
Bender said:You've got to think this is going to come up in the next CBA now. Give them arb rights and be done with it.
herman said:https://twitter.com/scottcwheeler/status/1163927667508486145
Because the Leafs committed to using LTIR, it will be impossible for the Leafs to sign Marner to anything more than ~10.5M AAV deeper into the season because of the pro-rated first year cap hit exceeding our LTIR room.
Because he also has no intention of playing outside of Toronto and no one is willing to offer a mind changing amount in addition to the 4 1sts, the only thing we are waiting for is how many years Marner will sign at the close of pre-season.
Nik the Trik said:Bender said:You've got to think this is going to come up in the next CBA now. Give them arb rights and be done with it.
If multiple guys go as long as Nylander then that might prompt some people towards change but a bunch of guys being unsigned a month before training camp begins isn't going to be a big deal.
Nik the Trik said:Arbitration isn't really a solution either as besides it being an adversarial process that teams/players don't really like, you'd either have to make it so that RFA's could use it to compare themselves to UFA's to get a fair sense of their market value or keep it so RFA's could only compare themselves to other RFA's which is a dead market and basically kills the appeal of arbitration for players. This isn't to say it couldn't be an issue in the next CBA but if it is it will be pretty contentious depending on the parameters being set.
Remember, there were a lot of people during the Nylander negotiations who said that when looking at the Eichel or Draisaitl deals that it wasn't fair to expect teams to be bound by bad decisions other teams had made. Arbitration basically makes that unavoidable.
Bender said:I don't know if it's completely unlikely that he burns the year.