Trade Deadline

[Tigger]

I'm quite glad the Leafs stood by and let the troops fall on their collectively bargained sword. The only thing missing is some talent coming down the pike or this whole 'stretch the cap to get the youngin's ready' notion would be gold Jerry, or butler, gold... but there they are, caught in no man's land, again.

It's disappointing that a team with so many holes is right up to the Cap while most other teams that are similar or stronger can add the likes of St. Louis, Vanek etc.

I think this team is a lot worse off than many would like to think it is.

They are a fairly young team, lots left to do before they can be considered any kind of favourite so I don't mind them being up against the cap if it stops them from being spenders when they should be eyeing selling or standing pat.

I wish the rebuild had been truly embraced back when... but it hasn't turned out horribly for them.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

I'm quite glad the Leafs stood by and let the troops fall on their collectively bargained sword. The only thing missing is some talent coming down the pike or this whole 'stretch the cap to get the youngin's ready' notion would be gold Jerry, or butler, gold... but there they are, caught in no man's land, again.

It's disappointing that a team with so many holes is right up to the Cap while most other teams that are similar or stronger can add the likes of St. Louis, Vanek etc.

I think this team is a lot worse off than many would like to think it is.

They are a fairly young team, lots left to do before they can be considered any kind of favourite so I don't mind them being up against the cap if it stops them from being spenders when they should be eyeing selling or standing pat.

I wish the rebuild had been truly embraced back when... but it hasn't turned out horribly for them.

It might force the team to lose some players + not necessarily take full advantage of their best player in his prime.

 

[Tigger]

It might force the team to lose some players + not necessarily take full advantage of their best player in his prime.

Could be but in general I don't think the deadline is really the time to solve that problem, and I'm not sure what deadline deal could really have helped that didn't cost an arm and a leg when one is already down at least one limb.

What kind of percent loss are we talking about with the Leafs best player, like 5%? 10? I'm not really sure how you even quantify that given the composition of an NHL team.

The Leafs aren't ready to go for it, glad they decided to play it out for the most part.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

It might force the team to lose some players + not necessarily take full advantage of their best player in his prime.

Could be but in general I don't think the deadline is really the time to solve that problem, and I'm not sure what deadline deal could really have helped that didn't cost an arm and a leg when one is already down at least one limb.

What kind of percent loss are we talking about with the Leafs best player, like 5%? 10? I'm not really sure how you even quantify that given the composition of an NHL team.

The Leafs aren't ready to go for it, glad they decided to play it out for the most part.

Wasn't really talking about the deadline, but in general.  Cap space will be an issue after the season too.

 

[Tigger]

Wasn't really talking about the deadline, but in general.  Cap space will be an issue after the season too.

There is a 10% cushion coming up for everyone, a little more flex overall, no?

 

[Highlander]

the NHL has had a banner year, the most revenues ever and by a country mile. One would think that the cap is going up significantly this year and over the next years. Conjecture has a 90 million cap in three years. Some of these top players are going to be getting super ridiculous money next time they renegotiate their deals.
In two years the Clarkson deal will seem like chump change

 

[CarltonTheBear]

the NHL has had a banner year, the most revenues ever and by a country mile. One would think that the cap is going up significantly this year and over the next years. Conjecture has a 90 million cap in three years. Some of these top players are going to be getting super ridiculous money next time they renegotiate their deals.
In two years the Clarkson deal will seem like chump change

When James Mirtle did his cap projections he figured the cap wouldn't get close to $90mil until 2021-22. It definitely won't happen in 3 years. And those projections were with a stronger Canadian dollar, it's projected now that next season the cap will be around $68mil because the dollar is at 90 cents.

 

[Highlander]

It doesnt makes sense that there is not some form of compensation allowed for our fluctuating dollar?after all the players receive US dollar contracts, this puts Canadian teams at a huge disadvantage?are we sure there is not some parody involved in the NHL barganing agreement???