Dobson and Bouchard are both RFAs. The Leafs should use Marner's cap space on an offersheet for the legit #1 they've been misisng.
Oh wait they traded all their picks for Laughton and Carlo.
They both have big bonuses on July 1.
Krok will be a $700k cap hit so someone will take him.
Kampf is $1 mill this year but another $2.4 next year which makes it harder. But he is a center so some team probably takes him.
If you can get a decent price ($7 mill ish) a long term deal makes a ton of sense.
But if it’s bridge at $4-5 or long term at $8+ there is a lot to like about having Knies plus another good forward for the same price as Knies for the next few years
$12 mill in Vegas is the equavlent of $14 mill in Toronto after taxes.
Vegas makes a bunch of sense. They'll obviously go after him.
Marner is way better than Caufield and Stankoven. Marner had more points in the playoffs than them combined in 7 less games. Plus he is elite defenively.
Florida doesn’t force their D to do much on the exit. They’re much closer together on the breakout.
Berube wants stretch passes and Benoit to go end to end.
Though I do think they need a high end offensive producer now that Rielly stinks.
Forida doesn't really have a guy like Makar/Bouchard.
I’d love to get a guy like Dobson or whatever, but the top end D doesn’t necessarily have to be an offensive superstar. At one point Rielly was that and it wasn’t enough either.
He basically said “we had a great offseason, we had a great season, we had a great round one, we had a great start to round two.. then we blew 3 big moments because our guys have shitty DNA from pfeizer, and they do it every year.” Its pretty good