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Originally Posted by sureLoss
So Shanahan is going to be asking Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Gardiner, etc to take less money for the good of the team:
Chris Johnston @reporterchris
Brendan Shanahan just clearly laid out the #leafs plan to ask players to make personal financial sacrifices in the name of the greater good. He says his old Detroit teams benefitted from doing just that.
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Tough to do that when you pay the outsiders first.
That worked for Detroit because Yzerman took a fair deal, and everyone else was expected to fall in line after that. In the end it ended with Fedorov leaving but it worked because other UFA vets were willing to go there for cheaper to play with Yzerman and Bowman (helped that there was no salary cap at the time too).
Toronto can't expect much in the way of discounts from their "home grown" guys now because they went and gave a UFA in Tavares $11M. If you are a Leaf young guy you look and say "You gave Tavares $11M and Marleau $6.5M and you want me to take a discount now..."
Good luck to Shanahan with that.
The even better part is that Shanahan signed a contract with St.Louis when he felt that New Jersey wasn't offering enough coming off his ELC. Really I hope the young guys all follow their President's lead.