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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
If they sign Tavares to 12 mill they still need to extend Matthews and Marner at the end of next year, Nylander this year and outside of Zaitsev x 6 years and Rielly x 4 years they have no established defenceman locked up past the end of next year.
Tavares x 10.5 mill - let’s say he takes a hometown discount
Matthews x 9 mill - At the very least
Marner x 7 mill - He’ll easily command that
Nylander x 5.5 mill - at the very least
They need to shed salary from the likes of Marleau, Martin or Kadri to make it work if they want to keep all their shining pieces and Tavares.
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I don't see that as both Nylander and Marner are RFAs, bottom line is that somehow Pittsburg has made it work, Toronto can certainly do it when the cap is much higher. They can certainly make it work as well if not better then any other team in the running as they have a projected cap hit of only 39 million for 2019-2020, this allows a lot of flexibility. The way things are going the cap will be at 85 million a year from now.
If you sign the above 4 players for 30 million that leaves you with 16 million to sign 8 players, you sign 3-4 at a million or under(they have a lot of good young players as they won the calder cup) and you have 12 million left for 4- 5 players and its very workable. Certainly when compared to San Jose who have one more year of Couture and Pavelski, the cap scenario is no worse then that and all teams have to move things around when bringing in player like that.
I still see the Islanders as number 1, I just see Toronto as very solid #2. The Islanders picked up a couple more outstanding players last year, and have a very bright future ahead. The three weakest positions in New York were GM, Coach and goalie. Two of those have been addressed and they have a lot of money left over for a goalie and JT.