Around The League - 2024-25 Regular Season

[Sal_Butera]

What’s Cgy going to do if they strike out in UFA? Can’t see them rebuild w the team & Sutter as coach, does that open up a deal for Gallagher, Dvorak?

 

[Krustchev]

Yotes will throw max $ at Matthews

He’ll go to NYC or LA.

 

[GEEMAN]

He’ll go to NYC or LA.

Next July back up the brinks truck

If he isnt willing to sign a year in advance , trade him

Leafs fucked up large , that contract should of been 8 years at his money

 

[Habsy]

We’ve won 10 playoffs rounds since the Leafs’ last, and we’ve been to the conference finals or more 3 times, and we’ve been an example of mediocrity. That Toronto streak is as improbable and uncanny as Canada’s drought since 1983.

1993

Don't make it worse than it already is!

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Don't think so. The team went into rapid decline soon after 93 and we were unlikely to knock off Pittsburgh in 91 or 92.

But you never know how fate would have worked or events intertwined by not having made that trade I suppose. Heavy. But yes, player for player it was a disaster.

Well we didn't knock off Pittsburgh in 91 or 92 because we were busy losing to Boston and in 93 the Isles beat them for us. But the 92 Blackhawks with Chelios barely laid a glove on Pittsburgh in the finals and they never got that close again while Chelios was there.

 

[Habsy]

What’s Cgy going to do if they strike out in UFA? Can’t see them rebuild w the team & Sutter as coach, does that open up a deal for Gallagher, Dvorak?

Trade for Tarasenko

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

We are witnessing Dubas’s “last stand” so to speak. It will fail, I suspect.

Did Dubas secretly hire Bergevin as a consultant?

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Yotes will throw max $ at Matthews

And Bettman will make sure they have the go-ahead to circumvent the cap if need be. Saving that sorry-assed franchise to save face is literally his whole life now.

 

[GEEMAN]

What’s Cgy going to do if they strike out in UFA? Can’t see them rebuild w the team & Sutter as coach, does that open up a deal for Gallagher, Dvorak?

What do the Habs get in return

 

[Sal_Butera]

What do the Habs get in return

Not sure but Monahan and his $6.75M AAV is gonzo

I’m convinced there some type of deal w Gallagher & Monahan involved… makes too much sense

 

[CH1]

Yotes will throw max $ at Matthews

LOL....max dollars for Zona is peanuts

Only Leafs can add that extra year; they will not let him go.

 

[Habsy]

LOL....max dollars for Zona is peanuts

Only Leafs can add that extra year; they will not let him go.

Nor should they.

Dubas will be fired long before they let Matthews walk.

I don't see it happening, they have the money to outbid anyone. It's just a matter of ramifications.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

LOL....max dollars for Zona is peanuts

Only Leafs can add that extra year; they will not let him go.

Would a player like Matthews really be worried about the extra year? Would he need to be? He may be a total douche canoe but he isn't a marginal player and he is going to make his money no matter what.

 

[CH1]

sure...but you are confusing the Leafs with the Expos. Or maybe it's just wishful thinking on your part, that AM will bolt as soon as he can.

 

[GEEMAN]

LOL....max dollars for Zona is peanuts

Only Leafs can add that extra year; they will not let him go.

its his call , just like Johnny ( me dont like Canada anymore )

Its not money anymore he is getting paid

 

[CH1]

its his call , just like Johnny ( me dont like Canada anymore )

Its not money anymore he is getting paid

I would say that Toronto and Calgary, while both in Canada, ain't the same

 

[GEEMAN]

I would say that Toronto and Calgary, while both in Canada, ain't the same

Sure , but 34 will go where he wants to go

One thing is certain

His agent and the NHLPA will use 34 to set the next salary bar exceeding McJesus , probably around 15 mil

 

[GrandWazoo]

LOL....max dollars for Zona is peanuts

Only Leafs can add that extra year; they will not let him go.

I'm not convinced Matthews has a burning passion to remain in Toronto. I think he bolts.

 

[Habsy]

I would say that Toronto and Calgary, while both in Canada, ain't the same

You're biased?

This has everything to do with extended families and covid policies.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Nor should they.

Dubas will be fired long before they let Matthews walk.

I don't see it happening, they have the money to outbid anyone. It's just a matter of ramifications.

If the only way to keep him is to pay him to the point where they guarantee that they can't build a Cup caliber roster around him then they're better off letting him walk. Right now they have $40 million committed to 4 players who aren't getting them anywhere. Meanwhile Ottawa has Giroux, DeBrincat, Tkachuk, Norris, and Chabot for just under $42 million.